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Linux Kernel 6.10 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 6.10 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux: How File Permissions Work  The New Stack

As anticipated the Linux 6.10 kernel was released as stable a few minutes ago by Linus Torvalds...

Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V  Phoronix

Thunderbird 128 Released With UI Changes + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

With Linux 6.10 expected to be released in the coming hours, in turn the Linux 6.11 merge window will open tomorrow unless there is any last-minute v6.10 release delay. With that said, here's a look at some of the features you can likely expect to see for this next kernel version...

Arch Linux based CachyOS has released their "July 2024" release that also introduces an AMD Zen 4 optimized repository that caters to current Ryzen 7000/8000 and EPYC 4004/8004/9004 (Zen 4) procssors and upcoming Zen 5 processors...

CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance  Phoronix

Linux: Understand sudo to Rule Your Server  The New Stack

Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent out his various pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window. One of the more interesting pull requests from Brauner this cycle are the "vfs procfs" updates that now allow restricting access to the /proc/[pid]/mem files of processes...

Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security  Phoronix

While Fedora 41 isn't even out yet, early feature planning is already underway for Fedora 42 that will debut in the early months of 2025. One of the interesting proposals raised so far is for making use of the new DRM Panic screen functionality for a "Blue Screen of Death" of sorts for better presenting kernel error messages in case of kernel panics...

Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen  Phoronix

Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for getting various Lenovo devices supported by the mainline Linux kernel that rely on the Qualcomm MSM8916 and MSM8939 platforms...

New Patches To Get More Qualcomm Lenovo Devices Supported By The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.10 stable should be released later today. It's been a fairly calm week in the kernel world and thus Linus Torvalds will most likely opt for tagging v6.10 as opposed to doing a v6.10-rc8 extra release candidate. So with Linux 6.10 likely upon us, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes in this new kernel release...

The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations  Phoronix

Linux: Understand sudo to Rule Your Server  The New Stack

Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V  Phoronix