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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 22nd, 2024  9to5Linux

SK hynix Applies CXL Optimization Solution to Linux  StockTitan

AMD's BIOS update is great for both Linux and Windows if you want a free performance boost  Neowin

In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also managed to finish up some of his own code for this next kernel version. Being merged today is his own code working on a new user access fast validation path using address masking...

Linus Torvalds Adds User-Access Fast Validation Via Address Masking To Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Intel TPEBS & LBR Event Logging Supported By Linux 6.12 With Perf Tools  Phoronix

The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable on the perf tools side is supporting some features found in newer Intel processors...

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Valve may be working on a Linux ARM64-based version of Steam  XDA Developers

Linux: Create and Connect to an NFS Share  The New Stack

Linus Torvalds accepts Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade so next gen Linux boots faster  Neowin

Linus Torvalds accepts Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade so next gen Linux boots faster  Neowin

How to connect to serial devices with Tio on Linux  Tom's Hardware

Managing Users and Groups in Linux | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Sep, 2024  Medium

Linus Torvalds explains why aging Linux developers are a good thing  TechCrunch

Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year  Phoronix

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the next year...

The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs...

Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainline support for the Windows Dev Kit 2023 under Linux...