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Bcachefs Squeezes Last Minute Feature Work Into Linux 6.8  Phoronix

More than one week ago was the main Bcachefs feature pull for Linux 6.8 that included further enhancing the performance and other features of this new file-system merged back in Linux 6.7. Yesterday, just prior to the Linux 6.8-rc1 release, a secondary set of Bcachefs updates were merged for this next kernel version...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.7 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.7 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

DietPi January 2024 news (version 9.0)  LinuxGizmos.com

Linus Torvalds Announces the First Linux Kernel 6.8 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds Announces the First Linux Kernel 6.8 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

While Linux creator Linus Torvalds lost Internet and electricity amid winter storms last weekend and was without them for most of this week, he's still managed to deliver an on-time Linux 6.8-rc1 release following the two week merge window...

Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather  Phoronix

When it comes to the Linux kernel's "crypto" subsystem for various cryptographic and compression algorithms and various hardware drivers, the new additions for Linux 6.8 are particularly interesting on the Intel side...

Linux 6.8 Crypto Provides Intel IAA Compression Accelerator Driver, QAT 420xx Hardware  Phoronix

Sent in last week were all of the media driver updates for Linux 6.8. Arguably most notable is the introduction of the StarFive Camera Subsystem driver as a new image sensor processor driver initially being treated as a staging driver...

StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8  Phoronix

A quick look back at Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based Lindows OS  Neowin

A quick look back at Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based Lindows OS  Neowin

Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler...

Along with the USB/Thunderbolt changes for Linux 6.8, Greg Kroah-Hartman also submitted the char/misc changes during the back-half of the week for this new kernel version...

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Headlines char/misc Changes For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...

Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver  Phoronix