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The Linux 6.10-rc1 kernel was just released to top off the Linux 6.10 merge window...

Linux 6.10-rc1 Kernel Released With Many New Features  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.10 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Intel's open-source NPU "iVPU" Linux kernel driver for supporting their Neural Processing Unit beginning with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors is already seeing a code refactoring. The refactoring of this Intel accelerator driver is intended for allowing more versatile CPU and NPU combinations moving forward...

Intel NPU Driver Being Refactored For More Versatile CPU+NPU Handling  Phoronix

With the memory management "MM" updates merged for the Linux 6.10 there is now NUMA balancing support for multi-size transparent hugepages (THPs). This is yielding some nice performance results and there is also other work in this new kernel around multi-size THPs...

Linux 6.10 Supports NUMA Balancing For Multi-Size THPs  Phoronix

One of the patch series that sadly was not ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window and thus will need to wait a few months for at least the next kernel is enabling AMD Fast CPPC support for Zen 4 processors. Fast CPPC aims to allow the processor to deliver higher performance at the same power consumption...

Updated Patches For AMD "Fast CPPC" To Yield Higher Performance At Same Power Level  Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.10 is DRM_Panic as a kernel panic screen for situations akin to Windows' well known "Blue Screen of Death". This is a kernel-based panic screen as an alternative to systemd's recent systemd-bsod. Patches have been posted by Red Hat for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Direct Rendering Manager driver to work with DRM Panic...

While not as exciting as XFS expanding its online repair support, Bcachefs prepping for online fsck, Btrfs seeing some performance work, or F2FS improving zoned storage support, the modern NTFS driver "NTFS3" saw a set of fixes land for the Linux 6.10 kernel...

Decibels is a Minimal Audio Player, And That's About it!  It's FOSS News

Choosing the Right Linux Distro - Photo Albums, Images, and Videos  BleepingComputer

ChatGPT Helped Me Get Better at Using Linux, Here's How  How-To Geek

Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs  Phoronix

Sneaking in as a "fix" for the Linux 6.10 kernel is an enhancement to the AMDKFD kernel compute driver used by the ROCm compute stack for better supporting small Ryzen APUs like client and embedded SoCs...

A few days ago with the main RISC-V architecture pull for Linux 6.10 was enabling Rust support within the kernel for this ISA as well as other additions. A secondary set of RISC-V changes have been merged as well ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window closing this weekend...

Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression  Phoronix

I'm Waiting to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 for a Few Important Reasons  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Mozilla Ocho group has published their newest version of Llamafile, the open-source project that makes it very easy to distribute and run large language models (LLMs) as a single file. Llamafile is an excellent solution for easily sharing and running LLMs and supporting both speedy CPU-based execution as well as GPU acceleration where available...