📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.38

#intel #kernel #linux #opensource #ubuntu

📰 Debian 13.7 Released with 107 Security Updates and 106 Bug Fixes

Debian 13.7 is out with 107 security updates and 106 bug fixes, plus installer, kernel ABI, Cinnamon, glibc, and package updates.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-7-released-with-107-security-updates-and-106-bug-fixes/

#debian #kernel

📰 KaOS 2026.09 Released with Dinit, Niri, and Noctalia 5.1

KaOS 2026.09 is out with a Dinit-based system, Niri 26.04, Noctalia 5.1, Linux kernel 7.1, and Limine as the default bootloader.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-09-released-with-dinit-niri-and-noctalia-5-1/

#kernel #linux

📰 BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4

The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFS-Filesystem-To-Be-Removed

#kernel #linux

📰 Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization

In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zstd-Linux-7.4-Avoid-Redundant

#kernel #linux

📰 CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues

By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel keepers.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/14/cpython-eases-rust-requirements-as-assimilation-continues/5296010

#kernel #linux #python #rust

📰 Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: "Another Fairly Large RC"

Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster

Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-Kernel-Builds-AI-v2

#kernel #linux

📰 Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines

The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Branch-Remove-Old-ARM-Drivers

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.18 Released with More Fixes and Improvements

VirtualBox 7.2.18 adds Linux kernel 7.3 and RHEL 10.3 support, while fixing 3D crashes, VDI corruption, and Windows 11 ARM issues.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-2-18-released-with-more-fixes-and-improvements/

#arm #kernel #linux