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Linux 6.18 Block Code Introduces Lockless Bitmap For Software RAID  Phoronix

6+ emergency situations where Linux is indispensable  Mezha.Media

In addition to the Linux 6.18 kernel bringing initial bindings for writing Rust USB drivers, the main USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for Linux 6.18 brought a variety of other enhancements...

Linux 6.18 USB Brings Intel USBIO Drivers, Offload Improvements  Phoronix

System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop  9to5Linux

My 5 favorite cloud sync tools for Linux - including free options  ZDNET

Last week System76 released the Pop!_OS 24.04 beta along with the beta COSMIC desktop. This long overdue update to Pop!_OS re-bases against the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while featuring their modern, Rust-based desktop environment. For those curious I ran some benchmarks of Pop!_OS 24.04 beta compared to the current Pop!_OS 22.04 stable release.

Camara Project’s latest drop boasts 60 network APIs  telecomtv.com

More on: Arduino’s Linux-capable Uno Q  Electronics Weekly

Following last week's RISC-V pull request that brought support for the MIPS Vendor Extensions and other changes plus separately the SoC pull that added mainline ESWIN EIC7700 SoC support and the HiFive Premier P550, a secondary round of RISC-V architecture updates was submitted for the Linux 6.18 merge window...

Linux 6.18 RISC-V Default Kernel Builds To Support Front Panel Shutdown/Reboot Buttons  Phoronix

React Finds A New Home At The Linux Foundation With $3M Meta Support  Dataconomy

Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November...

4 ways KDE Plasma 6.5 beta is shaping up to be a beautiful, customizable Linux desktop  ZDNET

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been leading the work on developing a "fair" DRM scheduler for Linux kernel graphics drivers. This scheduling algorithm is inspired by CFS and aims to improve the experience of running interactive graphical clients in parallel with heavy GPU workloads. This scheduler is inching closer to being ready for the mainline Linux kernel...

The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its "stage three" development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new ports and less on existing compiler functionality/features...

In recent days there have been two rounds of Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" feature updates to be merged for Linux 6.18 in enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

KVM Virtualization Sees Several Exciting Improvements For AMD & Intel In Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Humble Choice for Oct 25 has Atomic Heart, V Rising, System Shock and more  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the NTFS3 driver changes to land last week for the Linux 6.18 kernel, the exFAT file-system driver for that other Microsoft file-system has also seen some notable updates this cycle...