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Linux 6.8 Articles & Reviews

Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt Benchmarks   Processors   2024-09-26
Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance   Processors   2024-05-23
Pop!_OS With Linux 6.8 Is Benefiting Older System76 Threadripper Systems Too   Software   2024-05-02
Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Performance Improves With Linux 6.9   Software   2024-04-29
Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9   Software   2024-04-04
Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads   Software   2024-03-29
Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9   Software   2024-03-28
Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware   Software   2024-02-23
Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver   Display Drivers   2023-12-22

Linux 6.8 Linux & Open-Source News

Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel   Valve   2026-05-02
AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes   AMD   2026-03-25
AlmaLinux 10.1 Will Support The Btrfs File-System   Operating Systems   2025-10-21
Intel Xe Enabling SR-IOV PF By Default, Marking Driver As "Broken" For Non-4K Kernels   Intel   2025-08-06
FreeBSD Quest Continues For Better Laptop Support With Better WiFi, GPU Drivers & PM   BSD   2025-06-09
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024   Free Software   2025-01-01
RISC-V Made Nice Software Progress In 2024 While Interesting Hardware Still Rare   RISC-V   2025-01-01
Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations   Ubuntu   2024-12-29
GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024   Programming   2024-12-26
Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024   Intel   2024-12-26
Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024   Linux Kernel   2024-12-24
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code   Operating Systems   2024-12-12
Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V   RISC-V   2024-12-05
AMD EPYC 9755 Performance On The Linux 6.11 & Linux 6.12 Kernels   AMD   2024-10-24
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2024-10-01
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake   Intel   2024-09-17
Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-09-10
New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12   Linux Networking   2024-09-02
Ubuntu 24.10 Prepares To Employ The Linux 6.11 Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-08-28
Linux 6.11 Kernel Performance On The AMD Ryzen 9 9000 Series   AMD   2024-08-19
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.6 Released For Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake   Intel   2024-08-15
Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10   Operating Systems   2024-07-09
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-06-30
Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake   Intel   2024-06-20
AMD ROCm 6.1.2 Released With Fixes & Optimizations   Radeon   2024-06-04
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-05-30
Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173   Hardware   2024-05-30
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer   Ubuntu   2024-05-28
Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option   Linux Storage   2024-05-24
Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite   Arm   2024-05-21
Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite   Hardware   2024-05-14
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support   Arch Linux   2024-05-13
KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration   KDE   2024-05-11
OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support   Linux Storage   2024-05-03
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan" Sees Some Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   AMD   2024-05-02
XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April   Phoronix   2024-05-01
Ubuntu Support Ongoing For The Arm-Based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Laptop   Ubuntu   2024-04-30
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available   Ubuntu   2024-04-25
Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10   Intel   2024-04-23
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade   Fedora   2024-04-23
Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing   Intel   2024-04-19
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week   Fedora   2024-04-18
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11   Mesa   2024-04-16
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing   Ubuntu   2024-04-11
Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability   Linux Kernel   2024-04-10
Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support   Nouveau   2024-04-09
Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter   Intel   2024-03-31
AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights   AMD   2024-03-31
Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel   Operating Systems   2024-03-27
Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding   Free Software   2024-03-26
Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops   Fedora   2024-03-26
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes   Multimedia   2024-03-26
Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator   Linux Kernel   2024-03-24
Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week   Fedora   2024-03-21
Bcachefs Multi-Device Users Should Avoid Linux 6.7: "A Really Horific Bug"   Linux Storage   2024-03-16
Linux 6.8.1 & Other Stable Kernels Released With Intel RFDS Mitigation   Linux Kernel   2024-03-15
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default   Intel   2024-03-13
Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work   Linux Kernel   2024-03-13
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance   AMD   2024-03-12
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers   GNU   2024-03-11
AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs   AMD   2024-03-11
Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
Linux 6.9 To Upgrade Rust Toolchain - Making More Features Stable   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
Linux 6.8 Is Very Exciting With Intel Xe Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics & New Hardware   Linux Kernel   2024-03-09
Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers   Hardware   2024-03-08
Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week   Linux Kernel   2024-03-03
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze   Ubuntu   2024-03-01
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
Intel Xe Kernel GPU Driver Starts Landing SR-IOV Bits & Other Features For Linux 6.9   Intel   2024-02-28
Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing   Linux Kernel   2024-02-25
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR   Mesa   2024-02-25
Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs   Intel   2024-02-25
Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-02-23
OpenZFS 2.2.3 Released With Numerous Fixes, Support For Linux 6.7~6.8 Kernels   Linux Storage   2024-02-22
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Released With Linux 6.5 HWE Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-02-22
Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices   Intel   2024-02-21
Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver   Intel   2024-02-19
Linux 6.8-rc5 Released With Documented Process For CVE Security Vulnerabilities   Linux Kernel   2024-02-18
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade   Programming   2024-02-18
Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9   Arm   2024-02-12
Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix   Linux Kernel   2024-02-11
Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2024-02-10
Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU   Linux Kernel   2024-02-09
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Leaning Toward Low-Latency Kernel Optimizations By Default   Ubuntu   2024-02-06
Linux Pulls In Two Serious Bug Fixes For Bcachefs   Linux Storage   2024-02-06
Linux 6.8-rc3 Released - Slightly Larger But Not Too Worrying   Linux Kernel   2024-02-04
Initial Support For The Lenovo Legion Go Controllers Added To Linux 6.8   Hardware   2024-02-02
Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage   Linux Kernel   2024-02-02
Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2024-02-01
EROFS Lands Big Optimization In Linux 6.8 For Low-Memory Scenarios   Linux Storage   2024-01-31
Ubuntu Looking At Applying Low-Latency Optimizations To Its Generic Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-01-29
Linux 6.8-rc2 Released & Is Now More Stable   Linux Kernel   2024-01-28
Linux 6.8-rc2 Adds More Zen 5 IDs, AMD PMF Will Know If You're In Front Of Your Laptop   AMD   2024-01-28
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-01-27
Real-Time Patches Updated Against The Linux 6.8 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2024-01-23
Linux 6.8 Running Well On The AMD Threadripper 7980X, Maintaining Gains Made With v6.7   Linux Kernel   2024-01-23
Intel Sends Out First Linux Patch For Clearwater Forest   Intel   2024-01-23
Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows   Linux Kernel   2024-01-22
Bcachefs Squeezes Last Minute Feature Work Into Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-22
Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather   Linux Kernel   2024-01-21
Linux 6.8 Crypto Provides Intel IAA Compression Accelerator Driver, QAT 420xx Hardware   Intel   2024-01-21
StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8   Multimedia   2024-01-21
AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Headlines char/misc Changes For Linux 6.8   Hardware   2024-01-21
Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver   Hardware   2024-01-21
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7   Linux Kernel   2024-01-21
LoongArch Lands Initial Rust Kernel Support For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-01-20
Linux 6.8-rc1 Should Release On Schedule Tomorrow   Linux Kernel   2024-01-20
Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs   Radeon   2024-01-19
Linux 6.8 Adds Input Driver For Adafruit Seesaw Gamepad   Hardware   2024-01-19
AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8   Linux Security   2024-01-19
Linux 6.8 Default-Disabling 31-bit Enterprise System Architecture ELF Binary Support   Hardware   2024-01-19
Linux 6.8 Merges Fix For Recent Performance Regression Spotted By Linus Torvalds   Linux Kernel   2024-01-18
RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support   RISC-V   2024-01-18
Linus Torvalds Gets Back To Merging New Code For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-01-17
Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8   Hardware   2024-01-17
Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled   Intel   2024-01-17
GFS2 File-System Enables Non-Blocking Lookups With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-16
Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8   Intel   2024-01-16
New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8   Hardware   2024-01-16
Linux 6.8 Introduces New Syscalls For More Detailed File-System Mount Information   Linux Storage   2024-01-16
Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck   Linux Kernel   2024-01-15
Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios   Linux Storage   2024-01-15
Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8   Hardware   2024-01-15
A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds   Linux Kernel   2024-01-14
AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2024-01-14
Linux 6.8 Merge Window On Hiatus Due To Winter Storm   Linux Kernel   2024-01-13
KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work   Virtualization   2024-01-13
Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8   Intel   2024-01-13
Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"   Linux Kernel   2024-01-12
EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers   Linux Storage   2024-01-12
Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests   Intel   2024-01-12
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-11
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0   Mesa   2024-01-11
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs   Arm   2024-01-11
Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities   Intel   2024-01-11
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver   Linux Kernel   2024-01-11
Linux 6.8 Continues Work For Clearing The sysctl Sentinel Bloat   Linux Kernel   2024-01-11
Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
Bcachefs Boasts Hefty Optimization For Linux 6.8: 4k MT Random Writes Jump ~30%   Linux Storage   2024-01-10
XFS Online Repair Picks Up More Features With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-10
Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events   AMD   2024-01-10
Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras   Hardware   2024-01-10
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%   Linux Networking   2024-01-09
Linux 6.8 HID: Steam Controller Driver Fixes From SteamOS, Nintendo NSO Controller Support   Hardware   2024-01-09
Linux 6.8 Power Management Prepares For Upcoming Intel Server Processors   Linux Kernel   2024-01-09