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Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility
Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...
Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer
The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...
Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator
Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...
Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening
With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...
IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI
The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature...
Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues
Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes...
AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9
The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes...
DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround
The DIRT 5 racing game was one of the titles that hadn't worked on Intel graphics under Linux due to the sparse memory support for the ANV Vulkan driver. But with sparse support now enabled, the game was crashing at launch. But now a workaround is in place to allow Intel's Mesa 24.1 Vulkan driver to work with DIRT 5...