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Rhino Linux 2025.1 is a smart choice for those ready to leave Windows  BetaNews

Linux Kernel 6.13 Released, This is What's New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Kernel 6.13 Released with Big Changes  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Kernel 6.13 Brings Big Changes  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 6.13 Released With AutoFDO + Propeller, AMD Changes & Broader Apple Support  Phoronix

As anticipated the Linux 6.13 kernel was promoted to stable today with an on-time release and in turn also marking the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window. Linux 6.13 stable has plenty of fine features for this first major kernel release of 2025...

Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stampede, and More  9to5Linux

How to Set Up Automatic Backups on Ubuntu Using Deja Dup  How-To Geek

The pid_max tunable for the maximum number of process IDs allowed simultaneously was increased by default back in 2019 with systemd. But that increase breaks a long held assumption by some user-space software that pid_max or the process ID would not be greater than 65,535. To now better workaround such outdated user-space software, a set of patches for the Linux 6.14 kernel will allow adjusting the pid_max limit on a per PID namespace basis to help cope with such software hitting such artificial limits and without having to lower the overall system limit...

Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler...

Following the release a few days ago of GNU Coreutils 9.6, the Rust Coreutils "uutils" project as a re-implementation of these core utilities within the Rust programming language is out with a fresh update...

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been sent out in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening...

Linux 6.14 EDAC Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest, Adds LoongArch Driver For ECC Memory  Phoronix

What Is Package Management in Linux and How Does It Work? | by Mohammed Muneef | Jan, 2025  Medium

The VFS mount pull request was sent out today in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening. One of the changes here is adding a new mountinfo program to the Linux kernel source tree...

Thanks to Valve, another Xbox 360-compatible game controller will see support with the upstream XPad input driver with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...

I've forgotten almost everything about using Terminal Emulators in Linux or macOS  XDA Developers

Christian Brauner of Microsoft began sending out his various pull requests today of new material for the Linux 6.14 kernel in advance of the merge window expected to open next week. One of the interesting pull requests is carrying the work of Omar Sandoval for faster /proc/kcore reads that can help with debugger performance...

GDB 16.1 was tagged today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for helping debug a variety of programming languages on numerous different CPU architectures and platforms...