Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement
…Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128" With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model…
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Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland
Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 April 2026 at 08:58 AM EDT. 42…
RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up
In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place 'XIP' kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as…
Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users
…Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1 Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks Apple HFS…
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 5 April 2026 at 06:42 PM EDT. 9…
Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn't Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the…
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation…
Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"
Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight" Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Networking on 21 May 2026 at 07:04 PM EDT. 9 Comments Driven by…
KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable
KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 1 April 2026 at 09:39 AM EDT. 9 Comments KDE Linux as the in…
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 9 May 2026 at 02:56 PM EDT. 1 Comment Microsoft released Azure Linux…