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Intel Auto Count Reload & Clearwater Forest PMU Support Merged For Linux 6.16

The Linux kernel Performance Events changes were merged for the newly-opened Linux 6.16 cycle. Most notable are some new additions on the Intel side while AMD also saw a few changes too...
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Linux 6.16 Adds Ability For Power Code To Freeze The File-System For Suspend & Hibernate lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Immich 1.133 Photo and Video Backup Solution Drops with Major Changes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Firefox 139 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


DietPi May 2025 Update Introduces Security Changes, Kernel Fixes, and Software Cleanups lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Greece’s Tech Leap: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


FUTEX2 Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16

On this first day of the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the locking code changes for the kernel that includes some additions to the FUTEX2 interface...
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Armbian 25.5 Released with Support for Banana Pi M2+ and BeagleBone AI-64 SBCs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Armbian 25.5 Adds Support For Newer Single Board Computers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


GNU Linux-Libre 6.15 Kernel Is Out for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Pyright: A Static Type Checker for Python (Install + Use) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.16 Adds Ability For Power Code To Freeze The File-System For Suspend & Hibernate

Among the many VFS pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the now-open Linux 6.16 merge window is support by the power subsystem for being able to initiate file-system freeze/thaw events as part of the system suspend and resume cycle...
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Firefox 139 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 25th, 2025 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


New Linux Patches Properly Handle The Audio Jack On Sony's PS5 DualSense Controller

While there has been the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller support for Linux going back several years and has been improved upon with more recent versions of the Linux kernel, there's been some shortcomings around the audio jack handling with the DualSense controller. A new patch series out today aims to enhance that capability...
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Linux Kernel 6.15 Released, Here’s What’s New lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu Neuters The New NOVA NVIDIA Driver

Following last night's release of the Linux 6.15 stable kernel, the FSF Latin America team has released GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu for their downstream kernel that strips out the ability to load non-free firmware/microcode and other elements of the Linux kernel deemed for not aligning with their software freedoms...
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 21 (May 19 – 25, 2025) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Rust Makes Progress On Async Rust Experience, Stabilizing Tooling For Rust In The Kernel

The Rust project this morning published a status update on some of their top project goals, including for enhancing the async Rust experience to make it closer to the sync programming experience as well as stabilizing the tooling needed for Rust programming use within the Linux kernel...
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New AMD SPI Driver Going Upstream In Linux 6.16

Among the early pull requests sent out today with the Linux 6.16 merge window now open are all of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) subsystem updates...
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Bcachefs: Performance Improvements, Recovery Work & Nicer Error Messages For Linux 6.16

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has already sent out the plethora of feature updates destined for the now-open Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. There has been a lot of work going on for Bcachefs that is ready for merging in Linux 6.16 with several performance improvements, continued self-healing / recovery work, improved error messages, and more for this cop…
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Firefox 139.0 Now Available With Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance

Mozilla Firefox 139.0 release binaries have been pushed out to mirrors today ahead of the formal announcement tomorrow. With the Firefox 139 browser update comes a few new features worth mentioning...
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How to Start RDP Server on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16

Merged for Linux 5.12 back in early 2021 was a new dynamic preemption mode. Finally now for H2'2025, the IBM POWER CPU ISA kernel code is supporing dynamic preemption...
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Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Hardkernel Introduces Low-Cost Amlogic S905X5M SBC with 4K@60Hz HDMI Output lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux Kernel 6.15 Officially Released, This Is What’s New lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


PicoCore MX93 CoM Features microNPU, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and CAN-FD lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing

As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more...
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Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Think Nobody’s Successfully Monetized Generative AI? Think Again. lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


ConfigFS Prepares Rust Support For Linux 6.16

ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he's also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system...
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Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


13 Common Linux Myths Debunked (With Real Facts) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system...
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Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches

The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support...
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Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version...
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More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers...
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It may be old school, but I didn’t feel any need for change. And I can’t believe that changing app behavior is user-centric. In that case I hope that the existing shortcuts will stay…