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Torvalds Articles & Reviews

Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks   Computers   2022-08-09
Benchmarking The Linux Kernel With An "-O3" Optimized Build   Software   2022-06-29
Linux 5.12 Features Intel Xe VRR, Nintendo 64 Port + Clang LTO + Much More   Software   2021-02-28
The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness   Software   2020-09-13
Linux 5.8 Kernel Features Include New Intel/AMD Capabilities, Security Improvements, Optimizations   Software   2020-06-14
The New Features Of The Linux 5.7 Kernel: Tiger Lake Graphics Stable, New exFAT, Zstd F2FS, Performance   Software   2020-04-12
The Many Changes & Additions To Find With The Linux 5.2 Kernel   Software   2019-05-19
The Many New Features & Improvements Of The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Software   2019-01-06
The Many New Features of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Software   2018-11-04
The Many Great Features & Changes Coming For The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Software   2018-04-15
The New Features Of Linux 4.15: AMDGPU DC, RISC-V, EPYC Benefits, VR Improvements   Software   2017-11-26
The New Features Of The Linux 4.11 Kernel   Software   2017-03-05
The New Features & Exciting Changes Of The Linux 4.10 Kernel   Software   2016-12-23
Linux 4.6 Set To Bring A Significant Number Of New Features   Software   2016-03-26
The Linux 4.3 Kernel Is Bringing Many New Features & Improvements, But No KDBUS   Software   2015-09-13
LinuxCon North America 2011   Events   2011-08-18
Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04?   Operating Systems   2010-05-03
Ubuntu 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, 64-bit Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2009-12-30

Torvalds Linux & Open-Source News

Linux 6.7-rc4 Released As The Holidays Approach   Linux Kernel   2023-12-03
Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-12-02
Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week   Linux Kernel   2023-11-27
Linux 6.7-rc2 Released: "Slightly Larger Than Average"   Linux Kernel   2023-11-19
Linux 6.7-rc1 Released With NVIDIA GSP & Bcachefs While Itanium IA-64 Retired   Linux Kernel   2023-11-12
Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel   Hardware   2023-11-12
RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks   RISC-V   2023-11-10
Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default   Linux Storage   2023-11-07
Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7   Nouveau   2023-11-05
F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work   Linux Storage   2023-11-05
Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms   Linux Kernel   2023-11-04
Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow   Linux Networking   2023-11-03
Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed With The Linux 6.7 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2023-11-02
More Intel TDX Improvements Come With Linux 6.7   Intel   2023-11-02
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October   Phoronix   2023-11-01
Linux 6.7 Adds Support For Intel Meteor Lake Workload Type Hints   Intel   2023-11-01
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel   Linux Storage   2023-10-31
Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-10-30
Linux 6.6 Released With EEVDF, Shadow Stack & Performance Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2023-10-30
Some Of The Features You Can Expect With Linux 6.7   Linux Kernel   2023-10-28
Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2023-10-28
Last Minute Linux 6.6 Fixes Address Nine "Unusable" Lenovo AMD Laptops   Hardware   2023-10-27
Linux 6.6-rc7 Released: Linux 6.6 Final Likely Next Sunday   Linux Kernel   2023-10-22
Google Proposes New mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall For Linux   Linux Kernel   2023-10-17
Linux 6.6-rc6 Released: Plan For 6.6 Stable In Two Weeks   Linux Kernel   2023-10-15
Unplugging Logitech USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Linux Kernel To Crash   Linux Kernel   2023-10-15
PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6   Linux Gaming   2023-10-14
Linux 6.6-rc5 Released: "Things Are Back To Normal"   Linux Kernel   2023-10-08
Linux 6.6-rc4 Released - Linus Torvalds: It's Fairly Small   Linux Kernel   2023-10-01
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3   Phoronix   2023-09-30
Linux 6.6-rc3 Released With MG Timestamps Removed   Linux Kernel   2023-09-24
Linux 6.6-rc2 Released - 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released   Linux Kernel   2023-09-17
Following Criticism By Linus Torvalds, GenPD Subsystem Renamed To "pmdomain"   Linux Kernel   2023-09-13
Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next   Linux Storage   2023-09-12
Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats   Linux Kernel   2023-09-11
Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
DRM CI Merged Into Linux 6.6 - Linus Torvalds: "Let's See Where It Goes"   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents   Linux Storage   2023-09-10
RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR   RISC-V   2023-09-10
AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-09
Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-08
Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions   Virtualization   2023-09-08
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-06
FUSE Adds Initial Support For Statx, File Birth Times For File-Systems In User-Space   Linux Storage   2023-09-06
Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6   AMD   2023-09-05
Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper-V With Linux 6.6   Virtualization   2023-09-04
EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files   Linux Storage   2023-09-03
Bcachefs File-System Re-Submitted For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-03
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Linux 6.6 NFS Enables NFSv4.2 READ_PLUS Option By Default   Linux Storage   2023-09-01
Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6   Intel   2023-08-31
ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"   Linux Storage   2023-08-31
GenPD Subsystem Posted For Linux 6.6 - Torvalds Wonders What The Heck Is "GenPD"   Linux Kernel   2023-08-31
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over   Linux Storage   2023-08-30
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   NVIDIA   2023-08-29
EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced   Linux Kernel   2023-08-29
Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring   Linux Storage   2023-08-29
Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-08-28
Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits   Linux Kernel   2023-08-27
fchmodat2 System Call Submitted For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-08-27
Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI   Linux Kernel   2023-08-27
Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes A Performance Regression - 34% Drop In A Micro-Benchmark   Linux Kernel   2023-08-26
Linux 6.5-rc7 Released: Stable Linux 6.5 Expected Next Week   Linux Kernel   2023-08-20
Linux 6.5-rc6 Released With Latest CPU Security Mitigations & Bug Fixes   Linux Kernel   2023-08-13
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted   Linux Storage   2023-08-13
Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A Division By Zero   AMD   2023-08-09
Linus Torvalds Reviews The Bcachefs File-System Code   Linux Storage   2023-08-09
Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION   Linux Security   2023-08-08
Linux Decides To Disable RNG On All AMD fTPMs   AMD   2023-08-07
Linux 6.5-rc5 Released: Things Looking Under Control   Linux Kernel   2023-08-06
AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo   Phoronix   2023-08-01
Linus Torvalds: "Let's Just Disable The Stupid [AMD] fTPM HWRND Thing"   Linux Kernel   2023-07-31
Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence   Linux Kernel   2023-07-30
Linux 6.5-rc4 Brings Change For Enabling STIBP On AMD Zen 4 Auto IBRS Systems   AMD   2023-07-30
Linux 6.5-rc4 Fixes Support For Reporting Negative Temperatures On AMD Industrial CPUs   AMD   2023-07-29
Linux Kernel Mitigated For "Zenbleed" Vulnerability Affecting AMD Zen 2 CPUs   AMD   2023-07-24
Linux 6.5-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal"   Linux Kernel   2023-07-23
Linux 6.5-rc2 Released With Some Early AMD Family 26 Bits, Fixing Up Some KCFI Assembly   Linux Kernel   2023-07-16
Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some Assembly In C   Linux Kernel   2023-07-15
Linux 6.5 Adds In Some Next-Gen CPU Enablement For AMD PMF (Zen 5)   AMD   2023-07-12
Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-07-12
Linux 6.5-rc1 Released With Initial USB4 v2 Support, Cachestat, AMD RDNA3 Overclocking   Linux Kernel   2023-07-09
It's Looking Like Bcachefs Won't Be Merged For Linux 6.5   Linux Storage   2023-07-09
NTFS Driver For Linux 6.5 Brings Small Optimizations & Fixes   Linux Storage   2023-07-08
Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP + Intel TDX   Virtualization   2023-07-07
Linux 6.1 To 6.5 Git Quietly Patched For "StackRot" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability   Linux Security   2023-07-06
Scope-Based Resource Management Infrastructure Merged For Linux 6.5   Linux Kernel   2023-07-04
Linux 6.5 Brings Improvements To Firewire Support   Hardware   2023-07-04
Linus Torvalds Gets Coding To Improve Linux's User-Mode Stack Expansion   Linux Kernel   2023-07-01
Linux's SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated   Linux Kernel   2023-06-30
Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware   Linux Networking   2023-06-30
Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly"   Linux Kernel   2023-06-27
Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5   Linux Storage   2023-06-26
Linux 6.4 Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode   Linux Kernel   2023-06-25
Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow Stack, MIDI 2.0 & More   Linux Kernel   2023-06-25
Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust   Linux Kernel   2023-06-24
Linux 6.5 To Bring Better NUMA Awareness For The NFSD/RDMA Server   Linux Storage   2023-06-23
Linux 6.5 Slated To Add Provisioning Primitives For Thinly Provisioned Storage   Linux Storage   2023-06-20
Revised Intel Shadow Stack Support May Be Ready For Linux 6.5   Intel   2023-06-19
Linux 6.4-rc7 Released With The Quiet Cycle Continuing   Linux Kernel   2023-06-18
Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue   Nouveau   2023-06-17
Linux 6.4-rc6 Released: The Kernel Appears To Be In Good Shape   Linux Kernel   2023-06-11
Linux 6.4-rc5 Released - The Kernel Is Looking To Be In Good Shape   Linux Kernel   2023-06-04
AMD RX 7600, Intel X86-S & Other Exciting Linux/Open-Source News From May   Phoronix   2023-06-01
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch   Linux Storage   2023-05-29
Linux 6.4-rc4 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Release   Linux Kernel   2023-05-28
Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings   Intel   2023-05-28
Linux 6.4 Lands Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake Workaround For INVLPG/PCID Bug   Intel   2023-05-23
Linux 6.4-rc3 Released Following A Rather Smooth Week   Linux Kernel   2023-05-21
Parallel CPU Bring-Up Poised For Linux 6.5   Linux Kernel   2023-05-16
Linux 6.4-rc2 Released As A Fairly Calm Mother's Day Kernel   Linux Kernel   2023-05-14
Linux 6.4-rc1 Released With Intel LAM, Several New AMD Features, More Rust Code & Early Apple M2   Linux Kernel   2023-05-07
Intel Shadow Stack For Linux Hits Last-Minute Snag With Issue Raised By Torvalds   Intel   2023-05-07
Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4   Linux Kernel   2023-05-06
Linux 6.4 Closes The Door On Intel Thunder Bay   Intel   2023-05-05
Printk Changes For Linux 6.4 Are Light With Still Waiting For Threaded/Atomic Console   Linux Kernel   2023-05-04
Linux 6.4 Lands Concurrent I/O Performance Optimizations For Device Mapper   Linux Storage   2023-05-02
Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The x86 Memory Copy Code For Linux 6.4   Linux Kernel   2023-05-01
Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month   Phoronix   2023-04-30
Intel Linear Address Masking "LAM" Merged Into Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-04-29
Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers   Hardware   2023-04-28
F2FS & Btrfs Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 6.4   Linux Storage   2023-04-25
Intel Submits Long-Awaited Shadow Stack Support For Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-04-25
Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement, Zen 4 Auto IBRS & Much More   Linux Kernel   2023-04-23
Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More   Linux Kernel   2023-04-23
Intel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of Maximum Speed Due To Linux Driver Bug   Intel   2023-04-20
Linux 6.3-rc7 Released - Hoping For A Calm Week Ahead   Linux Kernel   2023-04-16
Intel Lands Linux Audio Fix For Arc Graphics A750/A770   Intel   2023-04-14
An Early Look At Linux 6.4 Features: AMD CDX, AMD GAM, Intel LAM, Apple M2 & More   Linux Kernel   2023-04-14
Linux 6.3-rc6 Released For Easter   Linux Kernel   2023-04-09
Linux 6.3-rc5 Released - Looking To Be In Good Shape   Linux Kernel   2023-04-02
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
Linux 6.3-rc5 Bringing Fix For Touchpad/Keyboard Issues With Some Clevo/TUXEDO Laptops   Linux Kernel   2023-04-02
Linux 6.3-rc4 Released: "Looking Pretty Normal"   Linux Kernel   2023-03-26
Intel LAM Will Try Again For Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-03-23
Linux 6.3-rc3 Released: It's "Fairly Big"   Linux Kernel   2023-03-19
Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions   Linux Kernel   2023-03-16
Intel Sends Out Sixteenth Round Of Linux LAM Patches   Intel   2023-03-13
Linux 6.3-rc2 Released With Two AMD Workarounds, Drops The Useless r8188eu Driver   Linux Kernel   2023-03-13
Linux Landing XMM Register Rollback Workaround For AMD Zen 1 / Zen 2 CPUs   AMD   2023-03-12
Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features   Linux Kernel   2023-03-05
Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler   Intel   2023-03-05
Linux 6.3 Improvements Yield Better Chances Of Successfully Compiling The Kernel With ~32GB RAM   Linux Kernel   2023-03-02
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
Linux 6.3 BFQ Gets Tuned For Multi-Actuator Drives   Linux Storage   2023-02-26
Linux 6.3 NFSD Adds AES-SHA2 Encryption, Memory Safety Improvements   Linux Storage   2023-02-23
Linus Torvalds' Advice On Git Merges: "If you cannot explain a merge, then JUST DON'T DO IT"   Linux Kernel   2023-02-21
Microsoft Pluton TPM CRB Functionality Merged Into Linux 6.3   Linux Security   2023-02-21