A Debian 13 kernel update with 68 CVEs: what to actually patch
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…
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Ryzen gaming on Linux got a quiet latency fix worth tracking
I have a confession. I almost skipped the AMD P-State patch thread when it first crossed my radar, because the title read like every other kernel mailing list post. Driver update. Frequency…
the linux kernel is removing a layer most of us forgot existed
Picture a building with two staircases running between every floor, both fully maintained, both lit. Tearing one down looks like nothing from the street. It is actually a quiet admission that the…
ARM64 Ubuntu servers finally skip the reboot for kernel patches
The on-call rotation got paged at 11:47pm a few months ago because a critical kernel CVE dropped. We had three hours to either patch fifty Ampere Altra boxes (a 64-bit ARM server…
Linus Torvalds quietly changed his mind on AI. Here’s how.
I have been thinking about how engineers update their opinions, and the role model I keep coming back to is not the one most people would pick. It is a software engineer…