Linux Kernel
The latest Linux Kernel coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Linux’s ntfsplus Rewrite Delivers Faster In-Kernel Read-Write NTFS, Solving Long-Standing Dual-Boot Limits
Linux users have long struggled with reliable NTFS support, but the landscape is changing dramatically with the introduction of ntfsplus, a modern in-kernel read-write implementation that represents...
Linux 6.13 Batching Slashes Network CPU Load 8% in High-Traffic Data Centers
Linux's network stack has received a significant optimization in kernel version 6.13 that promises to reduce CPU overhead during high network traffic periods, delivering measurable performance...
Microsoft Azure Linux Gets a 6.12 LTS Kernel Option — Here’s How to Use It
Microsoft has added an optional Linux 6.12 LTS kernel to its Azure Linux 3.0 release, giving cloud administrators a supported way to run newer hardware drivers and kernel features without abandoning...
Microsoft's First Rust Kernel Module Ships in Windows Insider Builds: The win32kbase_rs.sys Milestone
Windows Insiders recently spotted an unfamiliar file in their system directories: win32kbase_rs.sys. The "_rs" suffix isn't a coincidence—it marks the first Rust-written kernel module Microsoft has...
Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ Swaps GNU for Rust Coreutils, Walks Back Wayland-Only GNOME 49
Canonical has frozen the user interface for Ubuntu 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka,” locking in a release that will ship with a Rust-based sudo, a freshly compiled Rust coreutils set that...
CISA Warns: Patch Linux Kernel, Android, and Sitecore Now as Active Attacks Confirmed
{ "title": "CISA Warns: Patch Linux Kernel, Android, and Sitecore Now as Active Attacks Confirmed", "content": "CISA has added three actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited...
SharePoint, Cisco, Apple Zero-Days Headline 908-CVE Weekly Vulnerability Barrage
Security researchers tracked 908 new vulnerabilities in the last seven days, more than 188 of which already have publicly available proof-of-concept exploits, according to Cyble’s latest weekly...
KaOS Linux 2025.07 Goes All-In on Qt6 with Plasma 6.4.3 and Kernel 6.15
KaOS Linux 2025.07 arrives as a landmark release that draws a hard line: Qt5 is gone. The independent, rolling distribution has completed its transition to a Qt6‑only world, shipping with KDE...
WSL2 Deep Dive: Real Linux Kernel, GUI Apps, and the Performance Trade-off That Matters
Microsoft’s WSL2 delivers a genuine Linux kernel inside a lightweight VM, giving developers near-native performance and full GUI app support—but only if you keep your project files in the right...
Oracle VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Lets You Run Windows 11 Natively on Arm PCs
VirtualBox 7.2 has just entered public beta, and for the first time, the hypervisor can run Windows 11 on Arm natively — both as a host and a guest. Oracle’s latest preview build represents a...
KDE Declares Microsoft's Copilot Key 'Dumb' — Then Gives Linux Users Total Control
KDE developers have moved beyond rhetorical jabs and into code, implementing native support in KDE Frameworks for the divisive Copilot hardware key. The open-source desktop project plans to ship...
WSL 2.5.10 Lands: Microsoft’s Secret Security Patch for Windows 11 Explained
Microsoft shipped a terse, single-line update to the Windows Subsystem for Linux on January 15, 2025. Version 2.5.10 of WSL arrived through the Microsoft Store with no fanfare, no CVE identifiers,...