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Bcachefs now “Externally Maintained”

Couple of days before Linus quietly marked Bcachefs as “Externally Maintained”.

Aug 31 •

Linux 6.17-rc2 is out

Linus released a smaller-than-usual 6.17-rc2 this week, calling it "one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately." The release focuses primarily on…

Aug 18 •

User Virtual Address Space: arm64

📌 A must-have reference for Linux Kernel engineers

Aug 18 •

Linux Kernel Virtual Address Space: arm64

🔍 Kernel Virtual Address Space: aarch64 (Linux)

Aug 15 •

task_struct relationship with kernel stack

Ever wondered how Linux tracks the currently running process?

Aug 14 •

Linux 6.17 second half of the merge window

Linus released 6.17-rc1 on August 10 and with that the merge window for 6.17 is now closed.

Aug 11 •

6.17 Merge window - Memory Management & Filesystem Updates

Linux kernel v6.16 was released just last week, and the merge window for v6.17 is now open.

Aug 3 •

Parallelizing Linux Writeback

The Linux kernel’s I/O subsystem has evolved steadily to keep pace with modern storage hardware, with most layers gradually enhanced to exploit…

Aug 2 •

December 2024

November 2024

Linux multi-grain timestamp making it's way to 6.13 kernel

During the 6.6 merge window, the multi-grain timestamp feature was introduced but ultimately reverted after it caused regressions in tools like make and…

Nov 30, 2024 •

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