📰 FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report

📰 Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-DSP-Accel-Driver

📰 Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Unseeded-Random

📰 AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation

It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing...

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#amd #linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-BTB-Isolation

📰 OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.1-Released

📰 Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements

Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.

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#linux #kernel #arm

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-619-gpu-soc-rust-improvements.html

📰 Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-LTS-6.12-6.6-Extend

📰 RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video.

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in-the-upstream-linux-kernel.html

📰 Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality

While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won't debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets...

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#linux #systemd #gnome #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Looks-xattrs-Sockets

📰 Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2

Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc2-DRM-Fixes

📰 elementary OS 8.1.1 Released With Linux kernel 6.17

elementary OS 8.1.1 arrives with Linux kernel 6.17 and the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Hardware Enablement stack.

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#ubuntu #linux #kernel

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https://linuxiac.com/elementary-os-8-1-1-released-with-linux-kernel-6-17/

📰 Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought

More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.

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#linux #kernel

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https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-lts-kernel-support-extension/

📰 AMD Prepares Linux For Instruction-Based Sampling Improvements With Zen 6

A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list have now been queued up to a tip/tip.git branch for planned introduction in Linux 7.1. These patches are for enhancing the Linux perf subsystem support for AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) improvements with next-gen Zen 6 processors...

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#amd #linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Perf-AMD-IBS-Zen-6

📰 Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.6 Released with Linux 6.19, TLP Support, and More

PorteuX 2.6 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19, GNOME 49.4, KDE Plasma 6.5.5, Cinnamon 6.6, and more. Here’s what else is new!

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#linux #gnome #kde #plasma #kernel

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https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-6-released-with-linux-6-19-tlp-support-and-more

📰 Arch Linux March ISO Is Out With Kernel, Desktop, and Security Updates

Arch Linux has released its updated March 2026 installation ISO, bringing a new kernel, refreshed system libraries, desktop updates, and security fixes.

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#linux #arch #kernel

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https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-march-iso-is-out-with-kernel-desktop-and-security-updates/

📰 Armbian 26.2 Introduces Linux kernel 6.18 LTS Images and Imager Upgrades

Armbian 26.2 Goa introduces expanded SBC support, Linux 6.18-based images, and continued enhancements for Rockchip and Allwinner platforms.

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#linux #kernel

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https://linuxiac.com/armbian-26-2-introduces-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-images-and-imager-upgrades/

📰 IPFire 2.29 Core Update 200 Ships Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 200 introduces Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and a preview of the new IPFire Domain Blocklist for DNS filtering.

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#linux #kernel

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https://linuxiac.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-200-ships-linux-kernel-6-18-lts/

📰 ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux

A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel...

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#linux #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARCTIC-Fan-Controller-Linux

📰 Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel

Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...

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#linux #intel #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Xe-Next-Linux-7.1

📰 AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds

A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices.

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#linux #amd #kernel

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DPTCi-Linux-Driver