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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…


Fixing the 'update-grub: command not found' Error in Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How to Safely Delete Junk Files in EndeavourOS (Arch Linux) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release...
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GCC 16 Lands Better Support For -march= Targeting On RISC-V lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


NixOS 25.05 Lands with Kernel 6.12 and COSMIC DE Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How To Install and Play Roblox on Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


GNOME Web Making It Easier To Toggle WebKit Features

The GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time...
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Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine

While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase...
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Cloud Hypervisor 46 Deprecates SGX Support, Google To Take Over TDX Maintenance

While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopa…
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4...
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NixOS 25.05 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS and 6.14 Kernels, GNOME 48, and More lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


GCC 14.3 Compiler Released With 200+ Bug Fixes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
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maybe I should have gone with lunar lake powered zenbook 🥱


Rhino Linux Unveils KDE-Based UBXI Desktop lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Sublime Text Code Editor Update 4200 Add Sidebar Flexibility lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics...
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