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Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs  Phoronix

Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Linux for kids: teaching the next generation  CyberNews.com

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire hardware increasingly rare, the maintainer is hoping to get this Linux 6.12 code better tested by the community...

Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12  Phoronix

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Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that had been in development for two decades. Today another big hitting feature was merged for Linux 6.12 that's been in development nearly as long...

VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size  Phoronix

The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...

Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next...

There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One  Hackaday

Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47  9to5Linux

Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Ubuntu Linux 24.10 Oracular Oriole Beta released for testing  BetaNews

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...

Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing  Phoronix

Wind River introduces eLxr Pro enterprise Linux distribution for cloud-to-edge deployments  Edge Industry Review