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KVM Virtualization Sees Several Exciting Improvements For AMD & Intel In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 18:23
In recent days there have been two rounds of Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" feature updates to be merged for Linux 6.18 in enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

Linux 6.18 exFAT Driver Lands An Enticing Optimization

Phoronix - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 18:03
In addition to the NTFS3 driver changes to land last week for the Linux 6.18 kernel, the exFAT file-system driver for that other Microsoft file-system has also seen some notable updates this cycle...

A Brief Introduction to Makefiles and GNU Make for Beginners

Tecmint - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 13:31
The post A Brief Introduction to Makefiles and GNU Make for Beginners first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

GNU Make is a development utility that determines which parts of a particular code base need to be recompiled and

The post A Brief Introduction to Makefiles and GNU Make for Beginners first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Meta Opens Up OpenZL As Format-Aware Compression Framework

Phoronix - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 08:15
Meta already has Zstd (Zstandard) compression while this week they announced the release of OpenZL as a new open-source, format-aware compression framework...

Linux 6.18 Lands Initial Framework For USB Driver Rust Bindings

Phoronix - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:51
In addition to a lot of rust code merged last week for Linux 6.18, more Rust code has since landed by way of the char/misc pull request...

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