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Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium  The Register

A six year old Linux kernel mailing list discussion has been reignited over the prospects of converting the Linux kernel to supporting modern C++ code...

A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++  Phoronix

The tooling changes around the perf subsystem have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window and provide some new hardware features and other new perf profiling capabilities...

Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events  Phoronix

Intel engineers have released their FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q4 release, the quarterly set of updates to the FFmpeg multimedia library that they are still working to get upstreamed where appropriate but for now is a convenient home to all of their interesting FFmpeg patches from improved video acceleration for Intel graphics hardware to neural network features still being developed and other patches that aren't yet ready for inclusion into upstream FFmpeg...

Along with the Linux 6.8 power management updates, maintainer Rafael Wysocki at Intel also sent in the ACPI updates for this next kernel version. While the ACPI changes for the kernel are often just routine churn, this cycle it's bringing a new feature: device enumeration for CSI-2 and MIPI DisCo for Imaging support. This will allow MIPI cameras moving forward to be enumerated via the platform firmware on ACPI-based systems...

Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras  Phoronix

Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler...

How to install Linux  Tom's Guide

Here's how to get started with Linux in 2024  Medium

App Fleet: Open-Source App to Automate Your Workspace on Linux  It's FOSS News

Google may be planning to ship a rare upgrade to Tensor-powered Pixel phones  Android Authority

The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver...

Tensor-powered Pixels rumored to receive rare update  PhoneArena

Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections...

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%  Phoronix

5 Bash Script Examples to Help You Learn Linux Programming  MUO - MakeUseOf

Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation...

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon  Phoronix