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Reasons To Love Linux Mint  The New Stack

Linux 6.19 Delivers Working USB3 Support For Apple Silicon Devices  Phoronix

Merged last night for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window were all of the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes. Standing out this cycle is Apple Silicon devices like the M1 Macs now having working USB3 support on the mainline Linux kernel...

In addition to NVIDIA improving peer-to-peer (P2P) DMA for block devices in Linux 6.19, NVIDIA also led an effort providing DMA-BUF support for VFIO PCI devices for opening up some interesting new cases moving forward. As part of the VFIO pull request this new functionality has landed for Linux 6.19...

A week ago I wrote about AI being used to help modernize Ubuntu's Error Tracker. Microsoft GitHub Copilot was tasked to help adapt its Cassandra database usage to modern standards. It's worked in some areas but even for a rather straight forward task, some of the generated functions ended up being "plain wrong" according to the developer involved...

On top of the Rust driver core changes and other Rust code for Linux 6.19, the modules infrastructure for this new kernel version is also bringing some new code. Surprisingly, it's taken until now for Rust kernel modules/drivers to support module parameters as is common practice for passing different options when booting the kernel or manually loading kernel drivers with extra non-default options...

Rust Drivers In Linux 6.19 Will Now Support... Module Parameters  Phoronix

Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem are just a set of "fixes" for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays...

Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays  Phoronix

hell freezes over  Thurrott.com

My Linux system booted twice as fast after removing these pointless services  MakeUseOf

Microsoft's RAMDAX Driver Merged For Linux 6.19 To Carve Out RAM As NVDIMM Devices  Phoronix

The Non-Volatile Memory Device (NVDIMM) subsystem updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the NVDIMM code is a new open-source driver addition courtesy of Microsoft...

Making for a bit more exciting weekend is that minutes ago AMD has posted their first patch for enabling Zen 6 processor support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for -march=znver6 targeting...

The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs...

After testing over 20 Linux distros, these are the ones I trust on my main PC  MakeUseOf

The next Linux Mint, FreeBSD's big upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

The set of six branches containing SoC and platform updates/additions for the Linux 6.19 kernel have been merged for enabling a lot of new RISC-V and ARM 64-bit hardware as well as enhancing some existing SoCs/platforms...

Tenstorrent Blackhole Support & Other New RISC-V + ARM64 Hardware In Linux 6.19  Phoronix

9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands  It's FOSS