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Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0 of the Alpine Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge package with…

[LWN.net] Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released

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[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time…

[LWN.net] [$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window

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Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel...

[Phoronix] Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems

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Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit) One of the kernel options is being swapped, and GNOME is being upgraded to 49.

[How-to Geek] Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit)

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Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers

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Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts

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Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative It is making a more secure userspace console the default while keeping the old one as a backup.

[It's FOSS] Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative

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Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 Released With Kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3 Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 adds kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3, Debian 13.2, and major S3 backend improvements.

[Linuxiac] Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 Released With Kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3

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Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support

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Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...

[Phoronix] Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers

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FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff And we enter the Christmas month.

[It's FOSS] FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff

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Linux Bootloaders: Installing and Configuring rEFInd, Limine, and GRUB In following the modularity of Linux, we will look at the Bootloader. A Bootloader is software that the hardware loads the Linux kernel into memory. The system Bootloader is the bridge between the…

[Linux.org] Linux Bootloaders: Installing and Configuring rEFInd, Limine, and GRUB

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Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON A proposal was raised a month ago for Fedora Linux 44 to replace the kernel's frame-buffer console "FBCON" with KMSCON in user-space. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now…

[Phoronix] Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025 Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust in Debian; Python comprehensions; asynchronous Zig; BPF and io_uring; C safety; 6.18 statistics; just. Briefs: Landlock; Let's Encrypt…

[LWN.net] [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025

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Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

[Phoronix] Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

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Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With Kernel 6.18 Alpine Linux 3.23 introduces kernel 6.18, GCC 15, updated desktops, and package updates across the system.

[Linuxiac] Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With Kernel 6.18

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Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19 The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions…

[Phoronix] Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19

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Linux 6.18 Is Now Listed as the New Long-Term Support Kernel Linux 6.18 is now listed as the new long-term support kernel, officially joining the LTS line on kernel.org for extended maintenance.

[Linuxiac] Linux 6.18 Is Now Listed as the New Long-Term Support Kernel

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It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027 Linux kernel 6.18 is now officially marked as LTS (Long-Term Support) on the kernel.org website and it will be supported until December 2027.

[9to5Linux] It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027

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A final stable kernel update for 5.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.4.302 stable kernel: This is the LAST 5.4.y release. It is now end-of-life and should not be used by anyone, anymore. As of this point in time,…

[LWN.net] A final stable kernel update for 5.4

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Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series has reached end of life after being maintained for more than six years, receiving a total of 302 point releases.

[9to5Linux] Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance

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AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19 Linus Torvalds just merged another set of pull requests to Git for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. With the latest round of merges, there are two separate AMD changes worth highlighting...

[Phoronix] AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19

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Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19 An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance implications...

[Phoronix] Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19

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Linux 6.19 Merges "klp-build" As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution Merged as part of the objtool changes for the Linux 6.19 kernel is introducing the "klp-build" script as a new solution to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch file as the input. This…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Merges "klp-build" As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution

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Linux 6.19 To Allow File-Systems To Increase The Writeback Chunk Size Linux has maintained a default 4MB minimum writeback chunk size but with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel it will allow file-systems to override that minimum value. This in turn can help avoid…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 To Allow File-Systems To Increase The Writeback Chunk Size

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Linux Kernel 6.18 Is Out: What’s New and Important by George Whittaker The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users…

[Linux Journal] Linux Kernel 6.18 Is Out: What’s New and Important

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Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19 The big set of kernel scheduler changes were merged on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

[Phoronix] Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19

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Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19 Merged yesterday for the Linux 6.19 kernel were "substantial" improvements to the kernel's credential infrastructure to provide guard-based management that allows for kernel code simplification and…

[Phoronix] Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19

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Btrfs In Linux 6.19 Adds Experimental Features, Continues Preparations For FSCRYPT SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted the Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.19 on Friday, ahead of the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release that took place on Sunday. This copy-on-write file-system…

[Phoronix] Btrfs In Linux 6.19 Adds Experimental Features, Continues Preparations For FSCRYPT

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Fedora 44 Granted Approval For A Nicer NTSYNC Experience For Wine & Steam Play Fedora stakeholders have been eyeing a nicer experience for NTSYNC usage with Wine and Steam Play by being able to have the NTSYNC kernel module load when it's likely to be used. That approval has…

[Phoronix] Fedora 44 Granted Approval For A Nicer NTSYNC Experience For Wine & Steam Play

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