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Linux 6.9 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures  CNX Software

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of the High Performance Software Foundation  PR Newswire

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support  Phoronix

Yaskawa Electric's new robot with AI and autonomy uses Wind River Linux  Robotics and Automation News

Rocky Linux sponsor offers lifeline for firms using CentOS 7  iTWire

Linux Daddy Linus Torvalds releases kernel 6.9  BetaNews

"6.9 is now out," Linus Torvalds posted on the Linux kernel mailing list, "and last week has looked quite stable (and the whole release has felt pretty normal)." Phoronix writes that Linux 6.9 "has a number of exciting features and improvements for those habitually updating to the newest version." And Slashdot reader prisoninmate shared this report from 9to5Linux: Highlights of Linux kernel 6.9 include Rust support on AArch64 (ARM64) architectures, support for the Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) mechanism for improved low-level event delivery, support for AMD SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests, and a new dm-vdo (virtual data optimizer) target in device mapper for inline deduplication, compression, zero-block elimination, and thin provisioning. Linux kernel 6.9 also supports the Named Address Spaces feature in GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) that allows the compiler to better optimize per-CPU data access, adds initial support for FUSE passthrough to allow the kernel to serve files from a user-space FUSE server directly, adds support for the Energy Model to be updated dynamically at run time, and introduces a new LPA2 mode for ARM 64-bit processors... Linux kernel 6.9 will be a short-lived branch supported for only a couple of months. It will be succeeded by Linux kernel 6.10, whose merge window has now been officially opened by Linus Torvalds. Linux kernel 6.10 is expected to be released in mid or late September 2024. "Rust language has been updated to version 1.76.0 in Linux 6.9," according to the article. And Linus Torvalds shared one more details on the Linux kernel mailing list. "I now have a more powerful arm64 machine (thanks to Ampere), so the last week I've been doing almost as many arm64 builds as I have x86-64, and that should obviously continue during the upcoming merge window too."

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Linux 6.9 Released With Faster Intel Core Ultra Performance, Larger Console Fonts Option  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.9 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

15 Ways to Improve Ubuntu Without Touching the Terminal  How-To Geek

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Intel Unveils PCIe “Thermal Throttling” In Linux Driver Update, Targeted At PCIe 6.0 & PCIe 7.0 Standards  Wccftech

Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now possible to selectively toggle the feature on a per-CPU core basis... The new interface is under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/amd_pstate_boost_cpb for each CPU core. Thus users can tune whether particular CPU cores are boosted above the base frequency.

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