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The latest Linux kernel incorporates many AI fixes.
Cache-aware scheduling will speed up processing.
The latest kernel boasts other improvements.
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 7.2 over the weekend. He wrote, "This last week of the release was -- once again -- bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole 'new normal' thing, if I delayed releases for that reason, we'd probably never have a release at all."
AI and Linux development
"New normal," you ask? He explained this earlier in his note about Linux 7.2's seventh release candidate. "I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all. But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools."
These changes -- which are largely not new features written by AI, but patches to AI-discovered security vulnerabilities --add up.
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