Ael Yokan
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Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment (phoronix.com)
Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment (phoronix.com)
jbz
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｢ The proposal centers on a lightweight “ML proxy” within the kernel. This proxy would expose structured data from kernel subsystems, such as internal state or performance metrics, and receive recommendations from a user-space ML model. Training, model execution, and experimentation would remain outside the kernel, ensuring the kernel retains full control over the application of recommendations ｣
https://linuxiac.com/new-proposal-explores-machine-learning-assistance-for-linux-kernel-behavior/
｢ The proposal centers on a lightweight “ML proxy” within the kernel. This proxy would expose structured data from kernel subsystems, such as internal state or performance metrics, and receive recommendations from a user-space ML model. Training, model execution, and experimentation would remain outside the kernel, ensuring the kernel retains full control over the application of recommendations ｣
https://linuxiac.com/new-proposal-explores-machine-learning-assistance-for-linux-kernel-behavior/
Jérôme Herbinet | FLOSS
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🔥 Mon aventure de ce matin : mon #LinuxMint 22.3 du travail a basculé sur un #kernel 6.17 après une mise à jour.
⚠️ Fait rarissime, on m'informe qu'il y a eu des erreurs... bon, comme on dit, "dans le doute, reboot" 🤞 et là, #KernelPanic 😨 !
✨ Mais, comme les choses sont bien fichues sous GNU/#Linux, en quelques secondes, reboot puis options avancées dans le menu du GRUB, puis #rollback vers un noyau plus ancien toujours installé (6.14) et hop, c'est reparti comme s'il ne s'était rien passé 🚀
🔥 Mon aventure de ce matin : mon #LinuxMint 22.3 du travail a basculé sur un #kernel 6.17 après une mise à jour.
⚠️ Fait rarissime, on m'informe qu'il y a eu des erreurs... bon, comme on dit, "dans le doute, reboot" 🤞 et là, #KernelPanic 😨 !
✨ Mais, comme les choses sont bien fichues sous GNU/#Linux, en quelques secondes, reboot puis options avancées dans le menu du GRUB, puis #rollback vers un noyau plus ancien toujours installé (6.14) et hop, c'est reparti comme s'il ne s'était rien passé 🚀
⭐ GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building - Phoronix
｢ Hurd for years has also lacked SMP support for modern multi-core systems but that too has been improving in recent times. Similarly, Hurd for the longest time was predominantly x86 32-bit only but the x86_64 port is now essentially complete and there is even eyes toward AArch64 support ｣
jbz
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Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews - Slashdot
｢ The Meta engineer has been investing a lot of effort into making this AI/LLM-assisted code review accurate and useful to upstream Linux kernel stakeholders. It's already shown positive results and with the current pace it looks like it could play a helpful part in Linux kernel code review moving forward ｣
Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews - Slashdot
｢ The Meta engineer has been investing a lot of effort into making this AI/LLM-assisted code review accurate and useful to upstream Linux kernel stakeholders. It's already shown positive results and with the current pace it looks like it could play a helpful part in Linux kernel code review moving forward ｣
jbz
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🐧 Linux Kernel Quietly Formalizes What Happens If Linus Torvalds Steps Away
｢ It calls for a meeting to be convened within 72 hours, involving maintainers who participated in the most recent Kernel Maintainers Summit. If no such summit has taken place in the past 15 months, responsibility for convening the meeting falls to the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board ｣
https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-formalizes-what-happens-if-torvalds-steps-away/
🐧 Linux Kernel Quietly Formalizes What Happens If Linus Torvalds Steps Away
｢ It calls for a meeting to be convened within 72 hours, involving maintainers who participated in the most recent Kernel Maintainers Summit. If no such summit has taken place in the past 15 months, responsibility for convening the meeting falls to the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board ｣
https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-formalizes-what-happens-if-torvalds-steps-away/
🐧 DAXFS Proposed as a Zero-Copy Shared Memory Filesystem for Linux
｢ Cong Wang, a kernel developer at Multikernel, introduced a new Linux filesystem called DAXFS on the Linux kernel mailing lists. As the name suggests, DAXFS is built on the Linux kernel’s Direct Access (DAX) infrastructure, allowing filesystems to access shared physical memory directly without going through the traditional block I/O stack ｣
These two @lwn articles are prime examples of why good journalism matters and why you should pay money to make sure it thrives:
They both look beyond the shiny statements from the different parties involved and outside commentators such as @torvalds in this case and explain just how it is from a mostly neutral[1] point of view so that you can make your own judgments.
* GPLv2 and installation requirements – https://lwn.net/Articles/1052842/
* SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL? – https://lwn.net/Articles/1052734/
[1] We are humans, and even if we try, we are never completely neutral – and a publication like #LWN that targets the FLOSS community obviously will somewhat look at things from the view of its target audience.
Linux kernel security work
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/
#HackerNews #Linux #Kernel #Security #Open #Source #Cybersecurity #Tech #News
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?
Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/
It includes:
* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/
* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/
* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/
Wanna know what the #Linux core developers discussed recently on this years #kernel #maintainers summit?
Then check out the great @lwn coverage from the event now freely available:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049982/
It includes:
* Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development – https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
* Best practices for linux-next – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050027/
* The state of the kernel #Rust experiment (aka the session where it was decided that the experimental stamp is coming off) – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
* Better development tools for the kernel – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050177/
* Development-process discussions – https://lwn.net/Articles/1050179/
devSJR :python: :rstats:
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Richtlinien für Machine Learning im Kernel diskutiert
https://linuxnews.de/richtlinien-fuer-machine-learning-im-kernel/ #kernel #KI #ai #LLMs #linux #linuxnews
Richtlinien für Machine Learning im Kernel diskutiert
https://linuxnews.de/richtlinien-fuer-machine-learning-im-kernel/ #kernel #KI #ai #LLMs #linux #linuxnews
When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/udl.html
#HackerNews #driver #challenges #kernel #assumptions #openbsd #software #development #technology
🦾 Linux Kernel: No GPU left behind
｢ If Linux 6.19 switching from the Radeon legacy to AMDGPU kernel drivers for the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs for those ~13 year old GPUs isn't nostalgic enough for you, here's something a bit more nostalgic this holiday season: fresh open-source driver commits to the Radeon R300g driver for supporting those 23 year old ATI R300 GPUs up through the 20 year old R500 class graphics processors ｣