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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 10 June 2026 at 08:31 PM EDT. 29 Comments ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this ope

KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 24 May 2026 at 06:55 AM EDT. 8 Comments Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizat

jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 13 April 2026 at 08:22 PM EDT. 13 Comments Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and oth

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 4 April 2026 at 07:36 AM EDT. 103 Comments An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit h

systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation Written by Michael Larabel in systemd on 17 March 2026 at 04:15 PM EDT. 33 Comments Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Lin

Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 14 March 2026 at 08:17 PM EDT. 45 Comments An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA discrete GPUs with system memory and NVMe storage. The intent here with Gree

Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage" Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 11 February 2026 at 05:33 PM EST. 23 Comments The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for t

Microsoft's New Open-Source Project: LiteBox As A Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 4 February 2026 at 04:38 PM EST. 22 Comments Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security "LVBS". The design is for LiteBo

ollama 0.14 Can Make Use Of Bash For Letting AI/LLMs Run Commands On Your System Written by Michael Larabel in AI on 10 January 2026 at 07:17 AM EST. 46 Comments The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run --experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop so that LLMs can use tools like bash and web searching on your system. It

Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 17 December 2025 at 07:44 AM EST. 107 Comments The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code. Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the first CVE has been assigned to a piece of Rust code within the mainline Linux kernel. This first CVE for Rust code in the L

Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 November 2025 at 10:44 AM EST. 10 Comments A set of Linux kernel patches posted back in October for rewriting the kernel's memory-mapped concurrency ID code for some nice performance wins looks like it will land for Linux 6.19. This is the code that prominent Int

ollama 0.12.11 Brings Vulkan Acceleration Written by Michael Larabel in AI on 14 November 2025 at 02:52 PM EST. 11 Comments ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API. Launching ollama with the OLL

The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 9 November 2025 at 11:30 AM EST. 77 Comments Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling

Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 1 November 2025 at 05:23 PM EDT. 221 Comments Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requ

Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 9 October 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 1 of 1. 96 Comments. For the past 21+ years of running Phoronix and even longer than that being a Linux user, I have loved and consistently promoted Intel's open-source efforts and leading Linux support. Even through Intel's difficult periods

Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans Written by Michael Larabel in RISC-V on 1 October 2025 at 08:21 AM EDT. 137 Comments Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel. In response to a mailing list comment whether RISC-V big endian "BE" patches being worked on would be able to make it for this current Linux k

Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 29 September 2025 at 07:54 PM EDT. 184 Comments With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on B

Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 21 September 2025 at 06:39 AM EDT. 58 Comments Code was open-sourced this week and posted to the Linux kernel mailing list as a "request for comments" (RFC) for a multi-kernel architecture. This proposal could allow for multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine

Rust Coreutils 0.2 Released With "Massive" Performance Gains, Production-Ready Ubuntu Support Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 6 September 2025 at 09:25 AM EDT. 106 Comments The uutils project today released version 0.2 of the Rust Coreutils as their alternative to GNU Coreutils written in the Rust programming language. This release comes as Ubuntu 25.10 prepares to make use of it by d

Linux 6.17 Features: Great Intel Graphics Improvements, AMD HFI, Attack Vector Controls + Lenovo Gaming Drivers Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 15 August 2025 at 04:15 PM EDT. Page 1 of 2. 6 Comments. With the Linux 6.17-rc1 release this past Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is over. Here is a look back at the most exciting changes that made it for Linux 6.17. Linux 6.17 is to be anot

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 8 August 2025 at 02:55 PM EDT. 38 Comments There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is n

Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Updated For A Yet-To-Be-Public Security Vulnerability Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 6 August 2025 at 06:58 PM EDT. 7 Comments Microsoft today released an updated version of Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" that allows running Linux binaries atop Windows 11. There is only one change noted and it's for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability. It look

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With New Performance Optimizations, Updated Zstd & New Hardware Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 6 April 2025 at 04:39 PM EDT. 10 Comments The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released. Linus Torvalds just announced the 6.15-rc1 kernel. He commented: "It's been two weeks, and the merge window is no

Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 25 February 2025 at 06:47 AM EST. 140 Comments Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib. Zlib-rs 0.4.2 was released last week and notes in

Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 February 2025 at 08:34 PM EST. 118 Comments The Linux kernel mailing list drama around the Rust programming language use within the kernel continues... Linus Torvalds has largely refrained from the ongoing LKML discussions around a Rust policy for the Linux kernel and

PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 3 December 2024 at 05:20 AM EST. 3 Comments While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code. MD5 shouldn't be used for hashing passwords and are prone to attacks. MD5 shouldn't be in use for years for such purposes. But for those still relying