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.

For Linux's extensible scheduler support with sched_ext , the cgroup sub-scheduler support currently being developed is quite promising and could help roll out more Linux performance especially on multi-tenant systems / heterogeneous workload environments

Linux developer Tejun Heo yesterday posted his second iteration of the sched

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.

The AMD EPYC 8005 series was announced today as the successor to the EPYC

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.

Linaro with the backing of Arm is today announcing the CoreCollective as a new industry consortium to collaborate around modern computing and the next-era

Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit.

With the upcoming GTK 4.22 toolkit release, the SVG support is in rather good shape with GtkSvg thanks to the work of Clasen and others. Since last year Clasen has been leading work on an SVG renderer in GTK to offer robust built-in SVG capabilities for icons and more. This work has also involved updating many of the symbolic icons in GNOME.

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.

Systing began as a tool to generate Perfetto traces of the system while now with Systing 1.0 has developed a "new AI identity." Rather than manually creating scripts to analyze traces, Josef is now leveraging AI with the likes of Claude Code for making this tool more powerful. He's

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.

OpenZFS 2.4.1 brings full support for the Linux 6.19 stable series while continuing to retain support going back to Linux 4.18 or on the FreeBSD side continues working with FreeBSD 13.3 and newer. This release also fixes RISC-V and PowerPC support for

For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in taking care of various security-related issues that have been uncovered.

FreeRDP 3.23 addresses 11 different CVEs assigned this year that the developers sorted through following an in-depth analysis of the FreeRDP client code. FreeRDP 3.23 should be much better now on the client security side. The CVEs include CVE-2

It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing.

AMD SEV-SNP BTB isolation is around ensuring guest VMs protected by Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) cannot have their branch target buffers (BTBs) affected by context outside of that guest virtual machine. The AMD EPYC CPU hardware tracks each guest's branch target buffer's entries and can flush the BTB

Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in different environments.

Lutris 0.5.21 most notably adds Valve's Sniper runtime support. Sniper is the codename for the Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 release as the current latest version of their Linux runtime following the Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 Scout and Steam Linux Runtime 2.0 Soldier releases.