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In recent years Linus Torvalds hasn't had the time to write too much original new code for the Linux kernel himself with these days mostly managing developers, providing insightful mailing list posts, and reviewing code for merging into the kernel tree along with related tasks. For Linux 6.4 though he did manage to write up some new code...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The x86 Memory Copy Code For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

Mastering the Split Command in Linux: Effective File Splitting ...  Linux Journal

How to Use Nano Command Line Text Editor in Linux  Beebom

Google Now Offering Committed Use Discounts for RHEL/RHEL for ...  WebProNews

During this month on Phoronix were 242 news articles on Phoronix with original content each and every day presented by your's truly around open-source and Linux. April was interesting with the release of Linux 6.3, all of the exciting Linux 6.4 features merged so far, AMD introducing openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization with support for Coreboot and similar firmware solutions, Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 23.04 being released, and much more...

Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made ...  Phoronix

It sure doesn't feel like it's already been five years since Huawei announced EROFS as a read-only file-system initially designed for Android devices but has proven useful in the mainline Linux kernel to Linux users at large with interesting use-cases also coming up around containers and more. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel are yet more improvements to this read-only file-system...

EROFS Receives Some Useful Improvements With Linux 6.4  Phoronix

VMware ESXi servers subjected to RTM Locker ransomware for ...  SC Media

Back in 2021 AMD began preparing Linux kernel support for 5-level paging support with their future processors and building off the prior 5-level page table kernel support established by Intel. That was followed by AMD enabling 5-level page table support with KVM SVM in the Linux 5.15 kernel. AMD CPUs with 5-level page table support since launched in the form of 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors. One piece only now coming together though is AMD IOMMU driver support for 5-level guest page table support...

AMD IOMMU With Linux 6.4 Supports 5-Level Guest Page Tables  Phoronix

Microsoft Takes a Page From Linux, Will Add Rust to Windows Kernel  WebProNews

While prominent gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer still is not officially supporting Linux with their vast array of products, thanks to the community-driven OpenRazer project there is unofficial open-source support and can work quite well when paired with the likes of Polychromatic as a nice user interface. Out today is OpenRazer 3.6 in enabling the latest Razer products on Linux...

OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux  Phoronix

5 Best Linux Laptops (2023): Repairable, Budget, Powerful  WIRED

Linux 6.4 Continues Bringing Up More Compute Express Link Feature Code  Phoronix

With the work led by Intel engineers on bringing up the Compute Express Link specification features into the open-source kernel, Linux 6.4 is another cycle seeing a lot of enablement work on the CXL front...

The HID subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.4 kernel that is now half-way through its merge window...

HID Updates Bring Apple Quirks, Nintendo Controller Rumble ...  Phoronix