📰 Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs

While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance with speedy storage such as PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Faster-Small-Direct

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https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=365972

📰 System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Lemur-Pro-Panther-Lake

📰 Kernel 7.1: Graphics, Rust, and SoC Improvements

Linux kernel 7.1 brings improvements across filesystems, networking, scheduling, graphics, Rust, and hardware enablement, with Collabora contributing 65 patches from 16 engineers across Panthor, DRM, Rockchip, MediaTek, and driver fixes across the kernel.

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.1-graphics,-rust,-and-soc-improvements.html

📰 Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027

It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-Old-ARM-2027

📰 EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained

The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/EFS-File-System-Removal-Coming

📰 Ultramarine 44 Is Out Based on Fedora Linux 44, Linux 7.0, and KDE Plasma 6.7

Ultramarine 44 Linux distribution is now available for download based on Fedora Linux 44 and Linux kernel 7.0, and featuring the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ultramarine-44-is-out-based-on-fedora-linux-44-linux-7-0-and-kde-plasma-6-7

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📰 Valve fixed Diablo IV on Linux / SteamOS via Proton Hotfix

Blizzard broke Diablo IV on Linux / SteamOS machines with the Season 14 update, but Valve have now fixed it themselves in Proton Hotfix.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-fixed-diablo-iv-on-linux-steamos-via-proton-hotfix/

📰 Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces

Currently measuring in at 32 patches, SUSE engineer Juergen Gross has been leading the effort to end the Linux kernel's usage of their 32-bit model specific register (MSR) interfaces so the more modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ending-32-bit-MSR-Work

📰 NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support

NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VR-NVL-BMC-DT

📰 Linux Tops 2026 CVE Charts, Greg KH Says That’s a Good Thing

Greg Kroah-Hartman says Linux leads CVE counts for the first half of 2026, arguing the numbers reflect responsible reporting, not poor security.

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https://linuxiac.com/linux-tops-2026-cve-charts/