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fromTheregister
3 weeks agoNew Linux patch lets you cancel the hibernation process
The new request for comments is from Collabora's Muhammad Anjum. Collabora does a lot of FOSS development, although its work on LibreOffice may be the most visible. (That may even speed up, as earlier this year, it merged with Allotropia, the company working on a WASM version of LibreOffice.)
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fromTheregister
3 weeks agoNTFSplus is a new read-write NTFS driver for Linux
NTFSplus is an unexpected development because for about four years now, the Linux kernel has contained a read-write NTFS driver. It's called ntfs3 and it appeared in kernel 5.15 back in November 2021. It's called NTFS3 because it effectively replaced the old ntfs driver, which just offered read-only support, and ntfs-3g which works via FUSE - meaning that it runs as an ordinary, unprivileged userspace program, which imposes performance and other limitations.
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fromZDNET
2 months agoLinus Torvalds is sick and tired of your 'pointless links' - and AI is no excuse
promising 'Link:' argument that I hoped would explain why this pointless commit exists, but AS ALWAYS that link only wasted my time by pointing to the same damn information that was already there.
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fromZDNET
2 months agoLinux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans
Clement "Clem" Lefebvre and the rest of the Linux Mint team have done it again. With the release of , also known as Zara, users get a distribution that's easy to use and packed with helpful improvements to make the daily desktop experience better than ever. As a long-time Linux Mint fan, I'm delighted with this latest release. As in the last version, Linux Mint 22.1, codenamed Xia, the release is based on the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Linux distro.
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fromTechzine Global
2 months agoLinux 6.17-rc4 has notable updates
According to the developer, the commit numbers and diffstat are entirely in line with expectations. The cycle has also proceeded without surprises so far. Nevertheless, there are a few notable changes, according to Neowin, including a correction for the Intel idpf network driver and improvements in the handling of system registers within arm64 KVM. Torvalds (photo) emphasizes that most of the code changes are minor, often no more than a few lines.
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Apple
fromTheregister
6 months agoLinus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard
Linus Torvalds returns to full-size mechanical keyboards for tactile feedback after a six-month experiment with a quieter alternative.
Typing errors prompted Torvalds to prefer noisy keyboards, impacting his work on the Linux kernel.
fromArs Technica
6 months agoLinux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made
It's not the first time Torvalds has suggested dropping support for 32-bit processors and relieving kernel developers from implementing archaic emulation and work-around solutions.
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