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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...

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...