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Back in late 2023 were Rust abstractions for the Linux kernel's Virtual File-System (VFS) code. Those patches by Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho have now seen a second iteration posted... In addition to various improvements to the Rust VFS bindings, the new patches bring a work-in-progress EXT2 Rust file-system driver...

Microsoft Engineer Ports EXT2 File-System Driver To Rust  Phoronix

Debian's APT packaging tool is working its way toward the big APT 3.0 release. The APT 2.9 development series is underway and debuting last month was APT's new (CLI) user interface with a columnar display, colored text, and other improvements for this widely-used tool on Debian-based environments. APT 2.9.3 is out today as the newest development release and new to this version is a new package solver...

The Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly-opened Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Among the HID driver updates coming with Linux 6.10 are supporting the Steam Deck IMU motion sensors as well as HID coverage for the ASUS ROG Ally and ASUS ROG Z13 devices...

Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID  Phoronix

400k Linux Servers Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency  CybersecurityNews

Fanatical's Trinity Bundle - Immortal Edition has Prey, Fallout 3 & Vegas, Mortal Shell and more  GamingOnLinux

After the 22 patches were under review for the past eight months, merged today is the NVK Vulkan driver support for the VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier extension for handling DRM format modifiers...

Step aside AMD and Intel, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite will also support Linux  XDA Developers

Intel Arc GPU hacked to work on a 64-core Arm Ampere system running Linux  Tom's Hardware

Linux 6.9 arrives with Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake performance improvements  Tom's Hardware

Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers compromised for cryptotheft and financial gain  We Live Security

Manjaro 24.0 released with KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 46, Linux kernel 6.9  GamingOnLinux

Along with the IO_uring improvements for Linux 6.10, the block subsystem changes have also been merged for this new kernel version...

Zone Write Plugging Comes To Linux 6.10 For Better Performance  Phoronix

While much of the emphasis for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite laptop SoC has been around Windows on Arm PCs, Qualcomm has also been working to have upstream Linux support for this high-end SoC and everything is coming together for said support...

Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite  Phoronix

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ has finally launched for allowing M.2 devices like NVMe drives, WiFi adapters, accelerators, and more to be connected to the Raspberry Pi 5...

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Now Available For $12 To Connect NVMe Drives & More  Phoronix

Snapdragon X Elite, The Apple Silicon Killer Readies Support for Linux  It's FOSS News