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      Linux sched_ext Source Files Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965."..
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...
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      BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...
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      DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Over the years while working at Red Hat, Hans de Goede was known for driving many wonderful Linux laptop improvements benefiting AMD/Intel x86_64 hardware. Hans left Red Hat last year and ended up joining Qualcomm to advance their open-source/Linux support. Today he is out with a significant new patch series for consideration that has the potential of significantly improving the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series laptop Linux support and also important indicators for better Snapdragon laptop support on Linux moving forward...
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      Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...
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      EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The EROFS open-source read-only file-system has some nice enhancements in place for the
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      Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase...
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      Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...