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A Smattering Of Power Systems Announcements  IT Jungle

1. Linux Kernel 6.1 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!
2. 'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1  The Register
3. Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS Released with Initial Support for the Rust Programming Language  9to5Linux
4. Linux 6.1 Released With MGLRU, Initial Rust Code  Phoronix
5. Linux Kernel 6.1 Released With Initial Rust Code  It's FOSS News
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OSnews Decries 'The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations'  Slashdot

'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1  The Register

The mass extinction of UNIX workstations – OSnews  OS News

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.1 as stable!..

Open Source video editor OpenShot 3.0 now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux  BetaNews

Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon  InfoQ.com

Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon  InfoQ.com

This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm”  9to5Linux

Embrace the Christmas Season With a Log Fire and Rainstorm in Your Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

KaOS 2022.12 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.0, Improved ZFS Installation, and Plasma 6 Preview  9to5Linux

Intel on Sunday posted a set of Linux patches implementing SPEC CTRL virtualization support for this VMX feature with new Intel CPUs to help with migrating virtual machines to hosts with different CPU microarchitectures where their security mitigations may be different...

Open Source Video Editing Levels Up with OpenShot 3.0  OMG! Ubuntu!

Intel Preparing Virtual IA32_SPEC_CTRL Support For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

has anyone debugged how smbus_hc (smart battery reading over ec) works for battery in linux and osx? thx  MacRumors

While Linux 6.1 merged the initial Rust infrastructure, in this kernel version set to be released as stable today there isn't any Rust-based functionality for end-users. With v6.1 it's just some of the initial code for building up the Rust programming language support and it's continuing that way for Linux 6.2. The pull request of more Rust enablement has already been sent out for the Linux 6.2 merge window...

While the Linux 6.1 stable kernel isn't even being released until later today, there already have been a number of feature pull requests submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle. Due to the merge window being the two weeks leading up to Christmas, those with generous holiday/vacation time have been sending in their pull requests in advance. One of those early pull requests is all of the sound subsystem updates...

AMD & Intel Sound Platform Updates For Linux 6.2 Along With Other Audio Updates  Phoronix

As expected, the Linux 6.2 kernel is introducing a lot more Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement code...