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Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 00:00
While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there's an interesting feature on track: cgroup sub-scheduler support for sched_ext...

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series

Phoronix - Wed, 02/25/2026 - 22:20
The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EPYC 4005 series AM5 server processors that launched last year. On the embedded side is also the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. AMD has now filled the void between with the long-awaited EPYC 8005 series...

Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others

Phoronix - Wed, 02/25/2026 - 22:00
The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...

GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/25/2026 - 21:21
Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit...

Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI

Phoronix - Wed, 02/25/2026 - 19:11
Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer eBPF-tracing tool for Linux complete with AI integration...

OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 02/25/2026 - 18:57
Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...

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