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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 6.9-rc6 Released With This Kernel Looking "Pretty Normal"   Linux Kernel   2024-04-28
Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs   Linux Security   2024-04-28
Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down   Linux Storage   2024-04-23
Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad   Linux Kernel   2024-04-21
More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-04-15
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them   Linux Kernel   2024-04-15
Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation   Linux Kernel   2024-04-14
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives   Linux Gaming   2024-04-14
Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability   Linux Security   2024-04-09
Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support   Nouveau   2024-04-09
Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches   Linux Kernel   2024-04-07
Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review   WINE   2024-04-04
Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery   Linux Storage   2024-04-03
Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler   Linux Kernel   2024-04-01
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel   Linux Kernel   2024-03-31
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
Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4   AMD   2024-03-30
Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver   Linux Storage   2024-03-26
Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts   Linux Kernel   2024-03-24
KSMBD Now Implements Durable File Handles With Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-21
XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements   Linux Storage   2024-03-17
Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9   Hardware   2024-03-16
FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-15
Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-15
Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy With Some Of The Bcachefs Code For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-13
Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing   Linux Kernel   2024-03-13
DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-13
New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities   Intel   2024-03-12
Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs   Intel   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-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
Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing   Linux Kernel   2024-02-25
Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs   Intel   2024-02-25
Linux 6.8-rc5 Released With Documented Process For CVE Security Vulnerabilities   Linux Kernel   2024-02-18
Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code   Hardware   2024-02-16
Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix   Linux Kernel   2024-02-11
Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU   Linux Kernel   2024-02-09
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
Linux 6.8-rc2 Released & Is Now More Stable   Linux Kernel   2024-01-28
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-rc1 Should Release On Schedule Tomorrow   Linux Kernel   2024-01-20
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
Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8   Intel   2024-01-16
Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck   Linux Kernel   2024-01-15
A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds   Linux Kernel   2024-01-14
Linux 6.8 Merge Window On Hiatus Due To Winter Storm   Linux Kernel   2024-01-13
Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"   Linux Kernel   2024-01-12
Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
XFS Online Repair Picks Up More Features With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-10
A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers   Linux Kernel   2024-01-08
Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire   AMD   2024-01-05
Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win   Linux Kernel   2024-01-05
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
Bcachefs Prepares Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2024-01-02
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023   Intel   2024-01-01
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023   AMD   2024-01-01
SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8   Multimedia   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes   Linux Kernel   2023-12-31
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-28
Linux 6.7-rc7 Released Early Ahead Of Christmas Eve Festivities   Linux Kernel   2023-12-23
Linux 6.7 Won't Be Out For New Year's Eve   Linux Kernel   2023-12-21
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut   Linux Storage   2023-12-21
Linux 6.7-rc6 Released: "Various Random Fixes All Over"   Linux Kernel   2023-12-17
More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-12-11
Linux 6.7-rc5 Released: "Nothing Looks Particularly Scary"   Linux Kernel   2023-12-10
Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV   Virtualization   2023-12-08
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