The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel

In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also managed…

When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server…

An attempt at concise explanation of what io_uring is.

Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization.

The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console

Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13

The media subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window

Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs

AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface.

Months ago Intel Linux engineers began adapting the Linux kernel to end the assumptions made around 'Family 6' for Intel CPUs that had been used since the 90's with the Pentium Pro as the CPU family ID

An attempt at concise explanation of what io_uring is.

In these two most excellent articles,
https://without.boats/blog/let-futures-be-futures
and
https://without.boats/blog/futures-unordered,
withoutboats introduces the concepts of multi-task and intra-task concurrency.
I want to revisit this distinction -…