BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated
…Kaitao Cheng with Kylin OS has sent out a set of request for comments (RFC) / experimental patches for allowing BPF-based I/O schedulers to be created for Linux for dealing with…
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Last Call For The Phoronix 22nd Birthday Premium Special
…To hop on that deal, see this earlier article for all the details. The deal ends tonight (8 June) but not particularly sensitive to timezones and the like so ultimately if it…
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Finally Sees Initial ARM64 SMP Support
…Haiku in April saw more work on its Bluetooth implementation, MMC/SHDCI device work around powering off when there's no voltage range support, imported the zyd / zydwifi1211 driver from FreeBSD, and…
Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past
…Surprisingly the kernel to now wasn't checking at enqueue time whether the timer was already in the past and this could run into some complexities and system issues. Thomas Gleixner explained…
Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code
…It essentially provides derivable traits (e.g. 'FromBytes') and macros (e.g. 'transmute!') for safely converting between byte sequences and other types. Having such support allows us to remove some 'unsafe' code…
Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading
…both many new kernel features and also further dealing with the fallout from growing AI/LLM discoveries. Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026 Linux Networking Still Seeing…
Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux
…Shotcut 26.6 continues improving its high dynamic range (HDR) display support and dealing with HDR content from cameras to video game captures. There is now a HDR preview window with Shotcut…
Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration
…Downloads and more details on today's Qt Creator 20 Beta release via Qt.io . Qt's Latest AI Push Is Letting AI Agents Deal With Performance Profiling Qt 6.11 Toolkit…
Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
…Shotcut's timeline has been enhanced with symmetric resizing of a timeline transition, drag-and-drop from the "recent" area to the timeline, improved timeline zoom, and reduced memory usage when dealing…
AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law
…As for how they plan to deal with this law in California and progressing in other US states too, they say: " we are going to wait and see how this plays out…