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While we've been looking forward to Bcachefs landing and carrying out a fresh round of performance testing of Bcachefs against other file-system options, it's looking clear now that Bcachefs won't be landing for the Linux 6.6 merge window...

Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Merged on Thursday were a batch of KVM virtualization changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC-V2 SBC directly installs Linux images from the Internet  CNX Software

Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC-V2 SBC directly installs Linux ...  CNX Software

As a big win for Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerator found as an option with Sapphire Rapids processors and prior QAT hardware, there's been a QAT Zstd plug-in to provide big performance/efficiency benefits. Version 0.1 of that plug-in was released today...

Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there  The Register

Comparing Linux File Systems. A couple you might not know…. | by ...  Medium

2023 Linux Operating System Market Is Booming Worldwide | Industry Research Report  Benzinga

@HPCpodcast: Red Hat’s Mike McGrath on RHEL Source Code ...  insideHPC

Going along with KDE Plasma 6.0 releasing in early February will also be the Qt6-based KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6 happening in-sync...

Atlas VPN Linux Leak Exposes IP Addresses  LinuxInsider

Star Trek: Infinite from Paradox releases October 12  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.6 Lands Support For The Cirrus Logic CS42L43 Audio Codec  Phoronix

In addition to the notable sound changes that merged last week for Linux 6.6 that included AMD VanGogh SOF support and enablement around a Valve "Galileo" device, sent in via the MFD pull request this week is work enabling the new Cirrus Logic CS42L43 audio codec...

Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window were the x86 platform driver updates, which bring a few interesting Intel/AMD laptop improvements as well as a new driver to support altering select HP BIOS settings from within the confines of Linux...

New ASUS Laptop Features & HP BIOS Settings Driver For Linux 6.6  Phoronix