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Longtime Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar sent out a patch series this morning to enable additional kernel features by default for the Linux default configuration "defconfig" on x86-based kernels. The defconfig improvements aim to reflect modern Linux x86 kernel use with various features commonly being enabled by distribution vendor kernels and related improvements...

New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration  Phoronix

This Lenovo mini PC may be the computing system Linux users have been waiting for  ZDNET

Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.314 there are more early preparations toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 in aiming for a baseline of high-end smartphones, computers, and more for next year...

Merged for Linux 6.15 was IO_uring network zero-copy receive "io_uring zcrx" while now on track for landing in Linux 6.16 is extending it to support passing DMA-BUF buffers...

IO_uring Zero Copy Receive Seeing DMA-BUF Support Slated For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Introduced last year for Linux 6.13 was lazy preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" for a preemption model that is similar to full preemption but less eager to preempt normal scheduler tasks to provide some of the performance benefits found with voluntary preemption. After initially being supported for x86_64 and RISC-V, it looks like Linux 6.16 will support lazy preemption on ARM64 (AArch64)...

ARM64 Expected To Support Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" With Linux 6.16  Phoronix

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video "APV" codec. APV is designed for professional-grade video recording purposes and is a royalty-free video codec geared for prosumers. Now arriving within FFmpeg Git is APV video encode support...

Cardano Joins Linux’s Confidential Computing Consortium  Bitcoinist.com

Huawei unveils MateBook X Pro 2024 Linux Edition notebook  Huawei Central

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KDE Plasma kills off its half-baked LTS  Fudzilla.com

Rocky Linux vs. AlmaLinux: Which is better?  TechTarget

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Linus Torvalds happy with Linux 6.15-rc5, here's what's new  Neowin

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The fifth weekly release candidate of the Linux 6.15 kernel is now available for testing...