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CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance  Phoronix

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair  GBAtemp.net

The x86 platform driver changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.12 kernel continue to be quite lively with changes for enhancing Linux laptop support along with other Intel platform improvements...

Linux 6.12 x86 Platform Drivers Brings Improvements For Laptops Plus Intel ELC  Phoronix

Do You Use Linux for Creative Work?  How-To Geek

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers...

Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds  Phoronix

Submitted today as the "x86 fixes" for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc1 release this evening is adding two new Intel CPU model numbers...

Intel Panther Lake & Diamond Rapids Model IDs Added For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

How to Install OctoPrint on Linux/Ubuntu  All3DP

Valve steps up support for Arch Linux with new infrastructure  Neowin

Arch Linux and Valve team up to make Steam gaming even better  XDA Developers

Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at Varlink for IPC needs moving forward...

The KVM x86/x86_64 changes were merged today as we are nearly done with the Linux 6.12 merge window...

KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs  Phoronix

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer...

File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and in ending out the week he has drafted some additional workflow improvements...

The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...