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It looks like systemd 256 will officially debut as stable in the near future with systemd 256-rc3 being released today and not tacking on any new features compared to the prior release candidates...

Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent in the char/misc updates for Linux 6.10 alongside the other areas of the kernel he oversees. Among the char/misc changes is adding the NTSYNC driver that exposes the /dev/ntsync character device for use by the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton). But for Linux 6.10 the driver is effectively "broken" as most of the feature patches have yet to be included...

Initial Windows NT Sync Driver Merged Into Linux 6.10 But Not Yet Complete  Phoronix

New Rufus 4.5 has Windows and Linux improvements, for UEFI, NTFS, MBR, ISO, GRUB  Neowin

Mesa 24.1 Linux Graphics Stack Released with Vulkan X11 WSI Explicit Sync Support  9to5Linux

USENIX Security ’23 – PET: Prevent Discovered Errors from Being Triggered in the Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

Eric Engestrom has announced the release of Mesa 24.1 as this quarter's feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

The latest RISC-V port updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

RISC-V Now Supports Rust In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Back in February 2022 prior to the Valve Steam Deck being released, a Steam Deck Platform Driver was posted for the Linux kernel. Sadly, more than two years later, this driver still hasn't been upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel and it looks like it could still be months before it happens...

Steam Deck Platform Driver In No Apparent Rush For Upstreaming Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Introduced last year with the Linux 6.7 kernel was a hardening configuration to allow for "make hardening.config" as an easy way of building a security-hardened Linux kernel with sane defaults. With Linux 6.10 there are some additional security minded features now enabled...

Linux 6.10 Shows People Are Still Using USB To Parallel Port Adapters In 2024  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes this morning for the Linux 6.10 merge window that is wrapping up this weekend. Surprisingly, in 2024, a new USB to parallel printer port adapter variant is being introduced with Linux 6.10...

Making a case for case statements on Linux  Network World

The FUSE updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.10 kernel in supporting file-system implementations within user-space...

Alpine Linux 3.20 Released with Initial Support for 64-Bit RISC-V, KDE Plasma 6  9to5Linux

FUSE Adds VirtIO-FS Multi-Queue For ~5x Performance Win With Linux 6.10  Phoronix