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Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn't write as much actual kernel code these days as he used to. These days he's often busy overseeing the upstream kernel development community with reviewing code, managing releases, and chiming in on mailing list discussions. Once in a while though he gets down and dirty with some low-level kernel hacking just as he's done now for Linux 6.5 with improving the user-mode stack expansion code...

Linus Torvalds Gets Coding To Improve Linux's User-Mode Stack ...  Phoronix

The Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement in the Linux kernel remains ongoing and with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel are yet more features now being enabled for this exciting industry standard...

Linux 6.5 Adds CXL Device Sanitization, Secure Erase, CXL 3.0 ...  Phoronix

KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases...

How to Copy Files in Linux (2 Ways)  Beebom

The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]  It's FOSS News

Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat  Hackaday

Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces ...  Slashdot

With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what's captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...

What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So ...  Phoronix

While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 ...  Phoronix

8 Things You Need to Know Before Switching From Windows to ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following the path of SLOB, Linux's SLAB memory allocator is now officially deprecated beginning with the Linux 6.5 kernel series...

If Meteor Lake CPUs Are Cancelled On The Desktop Someone Needs To Tell Intel  HotHardware

Linux's SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated  Phoronix

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained  Ars Technica

How to Use the ex Line Editor on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How Linux 6.4 Kernel improves Wi-Fi 7 and IPv6 networking  SDxCentral