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Linux 4.14's long-term support will live on after all, thanks to this alliance  ZDNet

As a follow-up to the article earlier this month around DeviceMapper's Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) preparing to be upstreamed, it was successfully merged today by Linus Torvalds as the newest shiny feature of Linux 6.9...

Linux Foundation and US Government to Host "6G Innovation Day" at ONE Summit in Silicon Valley on Open Source ...  PR Newswire

Quickly and Easily Block Adult Content on Ubuntu and Other Linux  It's FOSS

All of the ARM SoC updates and new machine/platform additions were submitted and merged on Tuesday for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window...

New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Raspberry Pi OS Is Now Powered by Linux 6.6 LTS, Improves Raspberry Pi 5 Support  9to5Linux

Raspberry Pi OS Is Now Powered by Linux 6.6 LTS, Improves Raspberry Pi 5 Support  9to5Linux

System76 had been planning an initial alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to debut at the end of Q1 (March), but now they are delaying the first alpha to May for allowing time to wrap up feature work on their new desktop apps...

Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache  The New Stack

Squad-based tactical RPG 'Zoria: Age of Shattering' released with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Richard Hughes of Red Hat who leads development of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and Fwupd firmware updating utility is currently pondering plans for 2025. Among the ideas he's seeking input from the community is on whether the main focus should be on servers, desktop motherboards, laptops, or other removable hardware/peripherals...

LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More  Phoronix

The Linux work around atomic consoles and threaded printing remains ongoing. This work is particularly interesting as it's the last major blocker before real-time "RT" kernel support can land. This work sadly isn't ready for the new Linux 6.9 cycle but at least some printk clean-ups are landing for issues discovered during the atomic consoles effort...

Linux 6.9 Cleans Up Printk Code While Preparing For Atomic Consoles  Phoronix

I installed Minikube on my Linux machine | by Ebube Ndubuisi | Mar, 2024  Medium

While the new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.8 as this modern DRM driver that is opt-in for current generation hardware and aims to be the default for Lunar Lake / Xe2, currently with Mesa you must build the Intel ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D driver code with the "intel-xe-kmd" option to enable compatibility for this alternative kernel driver to i915. With Mesa 24.1 coming next quarter, that Intel Xe kernel driver support will be enabled out-of-the-box...

Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default  Phoronix

Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz has been known for many great Mesa improvements the past several years, especially around Zink for the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa. Over the past four years he has taken on many great performance optimizations and other significant code undertakings to improve Mesa. Blumenkrantz has picked his latest battle and appears to be around Mesa's Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) interfaces...

David Airlie has submitted all of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates today for Linux 6.9...