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Linux Kernel 6.12 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 brings many new features, new hardware support, and is rounded out by the fact of expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More  Phoronix

How to Manage Linux Processes Using ps, kill, and pkill  Yahoo! Voices

How to Manage Linux Processes Using ps, kill, and pkill  How-To Geek

Ryzen 7000 / 8000 random reboot virtualization issues fixed in last-minute Linux 6.12 patch  Tom's Hardware

10 Linux Commands to Know for Managing Files  How-To Geek

How to Bulk-Convert Audio Files in the Linux Terminal  Yahoo! Voices

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request. Notable with this last minute x86 urgent fixes for Linux 6.12 -- and also to be back-ported to prior kernel versions -- is working around an issue with AMD Ryzen Zen 4 client processors such as the Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors when making use of virtualization that could lead to the host randomly being rebooted...

Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs  Phoronix

Missing MS Paint on Linux? Here's 5 Alternatives to Try  How-To Geek

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  Yahoo! Voices

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  How-To Geek

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

As part of the SLAB (SLUB) allocator updates pending for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is a new "slab_strict_numa" option that is reported to further help ARM Linux performance such as for Ampere Computing servers...

Archinstall is the convenient text/CLI-based installer for Arch Linux that allows getting the Linux distribution easily installed in a matter of minutes. Released today is Archinstall 3.0 that overhauls the Arch Linux installer with now using the curses library for rendering of the text interface...

Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix

Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 "uutils" has been released for this implementation of the GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better memory safety and greater robustness. With the Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 there is increased GNU compatibility as well as better performance...

6 Linux Distros for Visually Impaired People  It's FOSS