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Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake  Phoronix

The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

RustConf speakers affirm Rust for Linux project despite challenges of unstable Rust, maintainer resignation  DevClass

Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls  The Register

AWS Transfers OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Advanced AI Surges on Linux  Virtualization Review

Advanced AI Surges on Linux  Virtualization Review

Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A.  Phoronix

A patch was sent out on Sunday for adding new Linux kernel configuration options for tuning the kernel build to different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. The intent is on generating kernel builds that are faster for use on modern Intel and AMD systems. However, this patch is likely to not be accepted in the mainline kernel and has already been criticized upstream Linux kernel developers...

Linux 6.11: More Rust, Torvalds adds "Runtime Constants"  heise online

Linux Foundation Unveils Valkey 8.0 with Enhanced Performance and Observability  Datanami

OpenJDK 23 is now generally available as the reference implementation to Java 23...

Last week the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-LLVM-Enablement">initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday then back-ported for LLVM 19...

Fedora Linux 41 Beta brings DNF 5, Nvidia driver support, and Redis replacement  BetaNews

The printk changes to finish the NBCON consoles work has been merged for Linux 6.12! This is the last remaining blocker on real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support from being upstreamed. We're now tantalizing close to seeing the real-time kernel support merged after many years of being out-of-tree patches...

AWS is bringing OpenSearch to Linux  TechRadar

LLVM 19.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 19 compiler stack including the Clang 19 C/C++ compiler...

Linus Torvalds advises open-source developers to pursue meaningful projects, not hype  Network World

Linus Torvalds advises open-source developers to pursue meaningful projects, not hype  Network World