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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...

Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux  Phoronix

Duff is a Slick Alternative to the ‘df’ Command  OMG! Ubuntu!

Is Linux Really Difficult For a Windows User? My Personal Journey Answers It!  It's FOSS News

The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...

When Raw Network Sockets Aren’t Raw: Raw Sockets In MacOS And Linux  Hackaday

Linux, Now In Real Time  Hackaday

Linux 6.12 is shaping up to be a heck of a kernel update! Following real-time "PREEMPT_RT" going mainline after twenty years and many other kernel features merged this week, Linus Torvalds just pulled in the much anticipated sched_ext code!..

Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs  Phoronix

Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Linux for kids: teaching the next generation  CyberNews.com

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire hardware increasingly rare, the maintainer is hoping to get this Linux 6.12 code better tested by the community...

Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12  Phoronix

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Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that had been in development for two decades. Today another big hitting feature was merged for Linux 6.12 that's been in development nearly as long...

VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size  Phoronix

The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...