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Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing

Phoronix - Mon, 05/26/2025 - 07:43
As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more...

ConfigFS Prepares Rust Support For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/26/2025 - 02:52
ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he's also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system...

Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sun, 05/25/2025 - 20:44
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system...

Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches

Phoronix - Sun, 05/25/2025 - 18:41
The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support...

Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues

Phoronix - Sun, 05/25/2025 - 18:23
With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version...

More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 05/25/2025 - 17:57
Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers...

Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

Phoronix - Sun, 05/25/2025 - 07:24
With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release...

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