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Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - 6 hours 20 min ago
Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices...

Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems

Phoronix - 9 hours 46 min ago
The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...

NFS Lands Initial Support For Directory Delegations In Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 23:13
The Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel with the most notable feature addition being initial support for basic directory delegations...

New RTC Drivers For Apple & NVIDIA With Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 22:28
The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday...

New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 19:41
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code...

LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 19:20
The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant...

New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 09:35
Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to "conclude the Rust experiment". The "experiment" of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it's now accepted to be a success and "Rust is here to stay" in the kernel...

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