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Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans Written by Michael Larabel in RISC-V on 1 October 2025 at 08:21 AM EDT. 128 Comments Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel. In response to a mailing list comment whether RISC-V big endian "BE" patches being worked on would be able to make it for this current Linux k

Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 29 September 2025 at 07:54 PM EDT. 184 Comments With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on B

Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 21 September 2025 at 06:39 AM EDT. 57 Comments Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine

Rust Coreutils 0.2 Released With "Massive" Performance Gains, Production-Ready Ubuntu Support Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 6 September 2025 at 09:25 AM EDT. 96 Comments The uutils project today released version 0.2 of the Rust Coreutils as their alternative to GNU Coreutils written in the Rust programming language. This release comes as Ubuntu 25.10 prepares to make use of it by de

Linux 6.17 Features: Great Intel Graphics Improvements, AMD HFI, Attack Vector Controls + Lenovo Gaming Drivers Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 15 August 2025 at 04:15 PM EDT. Page 1 of 2. 6 Comments. With the Linux 6.17-rc1 release this past Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is over. Here is a look back at the most exciting changes that made it for Linux 6.17. Linux 6.17 is to be anot

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 8 August 2025 at 02:55 PM EDT. 38 Comments There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is n

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 25 April 2025 at 09:30 AM EDT. 247 Comments Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support. Stemming from Bcachefs having discovered broken case-folding support for i

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With New Performance Optimizations, Updated Zstd & New Hardware Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 6 April 2025 at 04:39 PM EDT. 10 Comments The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released. Linus Torvalds just announced the 6.15-rc1 kernel. He commented: "It's been two weeks, and the merge window is no

Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 February 2025 at 08:34 PM EST. 118 Comments The Linux kernel mailing list drama around the Rust programming language use within the kernel continues... Linus Torvalds has largely refrained from the ongoing LKML discussions around a Rust policy for the Linux kernel and

PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 3 December 2024 at 05:20 AM EST. 3 Comments While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code. MD5 shouldn't be used for hashing passwords and are prone to attacks. MD5 shouldn't be in use for years for such purposes. But for those still relying

Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 28 November 2024 at 09:32 AM EST. 33 Comments Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux

cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 6 November 2024 at 06:09 AM EST. 4 Comments The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variety of network protocols for file transfers. Most notable with cURL 8.11 is sporting official WebSockets support

Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 31 October 2024 at 07:10 AM EDT. 21 Comments Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case. The patch

Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 22 October 2024 at 02:22 PM EDT. 207 Comments Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers. Sent

XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 29 May 2024 at 04:14 PM EDT. 96 Comments It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin

systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative Written by Michael Larabel in systemd on 30 April 2024 at 06:14 AM EDT. 193 Comments Overnight systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering wrote on Mastodon around systemd's newest effort: run0 as a sudo-like command. Coming for systemd 256 is "run0" as a sudo clone. Due to long-standing issues with sudo, Lennart wrote of run0: There's a new tool in sys

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 26 March 2024 at 09:20 AM EDT. 49 Comments While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver. The EXT2 file-system has been around for thirty years, it's been over two decades since EXT3 and a decad

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 28 February 2024 at 03:37 PM EST. 274 Comments One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum. AMD engineers had been working to come up with a solution in con

Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 14 February 2024 at 02:54 PM EST. 57 Comments Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx. Maxim Dounin decided to fork Nginx follow a disagreement with F5, the organization that acquired the N

LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions Written by Michael Larabel in LLVM on 5 February 2024 at 06:57 AM EST. 43 Comments While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. Op

SQLite 3.45 Released With JSON Functions Adapted To Use JSONB Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 15 January 2024 at 03:05 PM EST. 6 Comments SQLite 3.45 was released today with the SQLITE_DIRECT_OVERFLOW_READ optimization being enabled by default that can help for apps relying on SQLite and doing a lot of reads of large BLOBs or strings deliver better read performance. There are also que

A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 14 January 2024 at 03:47 PM EST. 56 Comments Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Networking on 9 January 2024 at 02:23 PM EST. 76 Comments Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking co

Linux 5.6 To Make Use Of Intel Ice Lake's Fast Short REP MOV For Faster memmove() Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 8 January 2020 at 06:34 PM EST. 6 Comments While Intel has offered good Ice Lake support since before the CPUs were shipping (sans taking a bit longer for the Thunderbolt support as a key lone exception, since resolved), a feature that's been publicly known since 2017 is the Fas