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There's another Rust upgrade coming for the Linux 6.10 kernel to bump the Rust version baseline required for building the Rust in-tree kernel components. This raising of the baseline will continue until a suitable minimum version is achieved where official Rust compiler "just works" well with the Rust'ed kernel bits. The Rust upgrade in Linux 6.10 also does away with its in-tree "alloc" fork for big code savings and simplifying maintenance...

Rust 1.78 Upgrade For Linux 6.10, Dropping In-Tree "alloc" Fork To Save ~10k Lines  Phoronix

Intel Linux driver update brings PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 thermal throttling  Notebookcheck.net

Linux Kernel 6.9 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

The various ARM SoC/platform pull requests were already merged today by Linus Torvalds for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

More ARM-Based Handheld Game Consoles Supported By Linux 6.10  Phoronix

AMD Linux devs jamming nearly 24000 lines of RDNA 4 supporting code into its mainstream driver suggests next-gen ...  PC Gamer

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September already, sadly the mainline Linux kernel still lacks support for booting this popular single board computer... The support on Raspberry Pi OS and other downstream distributions/kernels is good, but the mainline kernel support for the Raspberry Pi SBCs remains a sore spot for this popular ARM single board computer. SUSE engineers have been working on implementing minimal boot support for the Raspberry Pi 5 that will hopefully make it to the mainline kernel...

SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

Mozilla has pushed out its release images of the Firefox 126 web browser ahead of its official debut on Tuesday...

Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String  Phoronix

EndeavorOS Gemini is as user-friendly as it is beautiful  ZDNet

The work written about one month ago on Phoronix for much faster AES-XTS on modern Intel/AMD CPUs for speeding up disk and file encryption by as much as 155% with AMD Zen 4 CPUs has been submitted for Linux 6.10! As expected, this work providing new AES-XTS implementations for modern x86_64 processors is going into Linux 6.10 as part of the crypto subsystem updates...

Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.9 Release is All About Fixing Things  It's FOSS News

Watch: Dev runs Windows 11 ARM on Nintendo Switch using QEMU Linux emulation  WindowsLatest

Rescuezilla 2.5 System Recovery Distro Is Out Now Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

TwinCAT runtime for real-time Linux  IEN Europe

Back at Supercomputing 23, the Linux Foundation announced their intent on forming the High Performance Software Foundation for helping to advance open-source software for high performance computing (HPC). The Linux Foundation is now using ISC 24 this week in Hamburg, Germany for announcing that the High Performance Software Foundation has launched...

Today marks the first official day of the Linux 6.10 merge window. Among the horde of pull requests sent out today were the numerous x86 pull requests of material that's been queuing up in TIP.git of which there are many changes benefiting both Intel and AMD...