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Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension  Phoronix

Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms  Phoronix

The Linux 6.11 kernel is expected to be christened as stable tomorrow. Ahead of that stable release one of the last minute "fixes" is adding in another ID for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors...

Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake  Phoronix

As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the window state for use on future executions. However, it's currently disabled by default and won't be entirely baked until GNOME 48...

Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream — perps remain unidentified  Tom's Hardware

Use Samba on Linux for Essential Home Network File Sharing: Here's How  How-To Geek

Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON console work that is notable as the last major blocker before real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can be finally mainlined...

The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts...

EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes  Phoronix

KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3...

Best Resources for Learning Linux Administration  Analytics Insight

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat  Notebookcheck.net

Tuxedo introduces Gemini 17 Gen3: Powerful 17-inch laptop with Ryzen 9 and RTX 4070 for Linux  gagadget.com

GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...

KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators  9to5Linux

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Is Keeping the BeOS Dream Alive  How-To Geek

As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs while AMD has been more open to changing its Family ID every Zen generation or two. With Intel using Family 6 for so long it led to a lot of Linux kernel code just relying on Model ID comparisons for determining between Intel CPU generations and the like. Thus a lot of Intel CPU model handling reworks are needed for preparing future Intel CPU generations that will no longer be in Family 6. With Linux 6.12 it looks like that work will be wrapping up...