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      New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 is being worked on for the Linux kernel...
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      A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...
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      Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles...
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      Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    One of the latest Linux kernel optimizations being worked on by Meta's large kernel engineering team is making reading of /proc/interrupts less costly. Due to monitoring of their servers frequently reading /proc/interrupts, it's actually become a noticeable cost over time with their massive fleet of systems...
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      Servo 0.0.6 Released With Many Great Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its servoshell implementation and many prospects around using it for embedded browser use cases...
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      The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. As a common question in recent weeks from readers, it remains to be seen if that milestone will be achieved for the Ubuntu 26.04 launch day...
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      The Next LVFS Actions Begin Tomorrow To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Step Up

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Last year the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) announced plans for major vendors to pay or contribute code to this project that makes it easy for deploying new system and device firmware on Linux systems. They are asking those with less than 99 employees to contribute $10k USD annually or those larger organizations to contribute $100k USD annually or to be employing engineer(s) to work full-time on LVFS/Fwupd. Beginning tomorrow the next phase of their transition to encourage vendors to support the open-source project goes into effect...
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      MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" WiFi Support Coming Together For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    In addition to the MediaTek MT7902 WiFI Linux support emerging in recent months, the Linux support for the MediaTek MT7927 is also coming together for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support for the upstream Linux kernel...
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      Intel Announces The "Optimization Zone"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Intel today formally announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative at the company that began last October and is building up a centralized repository for maximizing performance and software optimizations around Intel hardware...