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      AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:00

    With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at that with how the Linux kernel performance has evolved since the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel at the end of 2025 to the current Linux 7.3 kernel.
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      Patches Posted With Aim To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Amazon Kindle 4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:05

    Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen year old e-reader device...
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      Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:38

    Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback from other Linux kernel stakeholders was sent out this weekend on Orphaned VMs...
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      GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:26

    GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...
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      AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...
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      Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    The Igalia Linux/open-source consulting firm based out of A Coruña, Spain is celebrating twenty five years of contributions to upstream open-soure projects...
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      Linux's Perf Script Command Much Faster With Overhaul As Python Module

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:57

    A big patch series sent out this weekend for the Linux kernel's perf subsystem removes the embedded Python and Perl scripting in favor of standalone Python scripts with a new Python perf module. This perf module for Python written in C is much faster than the status quo...
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      Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn't too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4...
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      Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues...