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  • Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series
  • Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week
  • Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series

With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7...

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week

Linux 7.2-rc7 is now available for testing as we close in on the official Linux 7.2 release hopefully next weekend...

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theregister.com /3 weeks ago

Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it ou...

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cnx-software.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.2 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 on LKML last Sunday: Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new norm...

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linux.slashdot.org /3 weeks ago

Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features

Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux. Highlights of Linux 7.2 "include cache-aware load-balancing support,...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions

With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integr...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver

It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs

With Linux 7.3-rc1 released to cap off the two week merge window, here is a look at the many exciting changes merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that is working its way toward release...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"

Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...

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omgubuntu.co.uk /3 weeks ago

Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026

At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to be used with modern...

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phoronix.com /2 days ago

Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week

After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance

Following last week's main set of memory management "MM" related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years

The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices

Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend a...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 PCI Code Adds Advisory Non-Fatal Errors, Intel Dunlow Support

All of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel were merged this week...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge"

Like clockwork, the Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in hopefully two week's time...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards

The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System

The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submissio...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller

The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire

Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are go...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible

Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specifi...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support

For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...

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