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Linus Torvalds Announces the First Linux Kernel 6.9 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Sam Lantinga released an SDL preview release today of SDL3 for helping to encourage developers to test out the new SDL 3.0 API...

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD  Phoronix

Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface  ITC

Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface  ITC

Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...

The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...

Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer  Phoronix

Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...

Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator  Phoronix

With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...

Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening  Phoronix

The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature...

IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI  Phoronix

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Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues  Phoronix

Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes...

The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes...

AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9  Phoronix