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  • Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes
  • TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel
  • Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes

Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel

TUXEDO Computers' laptops received some heat in the past from upstream Linux kernel developers over their out-of-tree kernel drivers but fortunately that situation has been improvi...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers larg...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000"...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linus Torvalds Rejects Performance Fix "Hack" & Kconfig "Terrible Things" For Linux 7.1

While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Di...

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phoronix.com /5 days ago

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware

With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking c...

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linux.slashdot.org /1 month ago

Greg Kroah-Hartman Tests New 'Clanker T1000' Fuzzing Tool for Linux Patches

The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — "has made its way into the Linux kernel," reports the blog It's FOSS "thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kerne...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More

The Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel was just released for concluding the Linux 7.1 merge window. A lot of new features are in tow for this next kernel version that will then be out as stable...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support

The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions...

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linux.slashdot.org /1 month ago

Linux Drops ISDN Subsystem and Other Old Network Drivers

"Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers," reads the pull request. And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request "to rid...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2

The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 ke...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs

Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1

The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise

It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max

Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux ke...

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