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Linux 6.9 Released With Faster Intel Core Ultra Performance, Larger Console Fonts Option  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.9 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

15 Ways to Improve Ubuntu Without Touching the Terminal  How-To Geek

Intel Unveils PCIe "Thermal Throttling" In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Barring any last minute reservations by Linus Torvalds, Linux 6.9 stable should release later today. In turn the Linux 6.10 merge window will then open for the next two weeks and already some early pull requests have been submitted for this next kernel version. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the Linux 6.10 kernel...

Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

The recent AMD P-State Linux driver patches for heterogeneous core CPU topology, Fast CPPC, and Core Performance Boost haven't made it to the Linux power management's "-next" branch ahead of the imminent Linux 6.10 cycle. Thus it looks like those features won't be ready to make it for v6.10 unless by chance being deemed ready in the coming days and then sent in as part of a secondary set of merge window changes. However, some other AMD P-State fixes/improvements are queued up...

Linux 6.10 AMD P-State To Deliver Fixes, Better Support On Older Zen CPUs  Phoronix

NVIDIA GeForce R560 Linux drivers will default to open-source GPU kernel on newer graphics cards  VideoCardz.com

AMD RDNA 4 GPU Patches Sees Merging Into Mesa’s RadeonSI Linux Driver, VCN5 Encode/Decode Capabilities Revealed  Wccftech

AMD RDNA 4 GPU Patches Sees Merging Into Mesa's RadeonSI Linux Driver, VCN5 Encode/Decode Capabilities ...  Wccftech

Finding the Fastest Arch Linux Mirrors  It's FOSS

With the new Intel "Xe" Direct Rendering Manager kernel driver that's been in development one of the touted benefits of the clean sheet driver design is that it would enable using Intel discrete GPUs on non-x86 CPU architectures. The long-used "i915" DRM kernel graphics driver has many x86'isms in the code-base built up over the many years of Intel integrated graphics that were only ever found within their x86/x86_64 processors. But now in the era of Intel discrete graphics, there's been issues in trying to run Intel Arc Graphics on say ARM, POWER9, and RISC-V, among others. The experimental Intel Xe driver was recently successfully demonstrated in running on ARM using an Ampere Altra workstation...

Following all of the GFX12 code and related IP landing within the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver as well as the LLVM AMDGPU shader compiler back-end and other code in enabling the next-generation of AMD Radeon graphics, the RadeonSI OpenGL driver support for RDNA4 (GFX12) was merged this Sunday into Mesa...

AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Support Merged For Mesa's RadeonSI Driver  Phoronix

Linux I/O expert and subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has submitted all of the IO_uring feature updates ahead of the imminent Linux 6.10 merge window...

IO_uring Bringing Better Send Zero-Copy Performance With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

The Linux 6.9 kernel should debut as stable later today unless Linus Torvalds has second thoughts and decides to delay it by issuing a v6.9-rc8 kernel instead that would then push out the official release by an extra week. In any event, as a last-minute "x86/urgent" pull request is another Zen 5 PCI ID being added...

Another AMD Zen 5 PCI ID Squeezing Into Linux 6.9  Phoronix