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While Linux creator Linus Torvalds lost Internet and electricity amid winter storms last weekend and was without them for most of this week, he's still managed to deliver an on-time Linux 6.8-rc1 release following the two week merge window...

Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather  Phoronix

When it comes to the Linux kernel's "crypto" subsystem for various cryptographic and compression algorithms and various hardware drivers, the new additions for Linux 6.8 are particularly interesting on the Intel side...

Linux 6.8 Crypto Provides Intel IAA Compression Accelerator Driver, QAT 420xx Hardware  Phoronix

Sent in last week were all of the media driver updates for Linux 6.8. Arguably most notable is the introduction of the StarFive Camera Subsystem driver as a new image sensor processor driver initially being treated as a staging driver...

StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8  Phoronix

A quick look back at Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based Lindows OS  Neowin

A quick look back at Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based Lindows OS  Neowin

Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler...

Along with the USB/Thunderbolt changes for Linux 6.8, Greg Kroah-Hartman also submitted the char/misc changes during the back-half of the week for this new kernel version...

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Headlines char/misc Changes For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...

Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver  Phoronix

Linux Foundation tapped to develop open source EV charging tech  ENGINEERING.com

New Bluetooth Vulnerability Let Hackers Takeover of iOS, Android, Linux, & MacOS Devices  CybersecurityNews

New Bluetooth Vulnerability Let Hackers Takeover of iOS, Android, Linux, & MacOS Devices  CybersecurityNews

How A Steam Bug Once Deleted All Of Someone's User Data  Hackaday

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7  Phoronix

For those on a new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system at least, the recently released Linux 6.7 stable kernel is looking mighty good at least for the Threadripper 7980X when testing on the newly-launched System76 Thelio Major...

How to Back Up Your Linux System With rsync  How-To Geek