Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and
closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having
pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those
commits came in after our first 6.19
merge-window summary was written. The second part of the merge window
was focused on drivers, but brought in a number of other changes as well.

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.

Diptyx launches on Crowd Supply as an open-source, repairable, dual-screen e-reader with e-ink displays, physical buttons, and weeks of battery life.

The CentOS kernel modules “Kmods” special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream…

Several times schema proposed in https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html has been run with no issues on bare metal . Re-sync provided by function u() embedded in /.bashrc was tested successfully on bare metal multiple times

The FamFS file-system being developed by Micron hopes to go upstream for Linux in “early-ish 2026″…

FORECR has introduced the DSBOX-THRMAX, an industrial box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor (T5000) module, targeting robotics, autonomous machines, and edge deployments that require high compute density, real-time processing, and multi-sensor support. The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance […]

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS…

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to “full GNU compatibility” with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite…

The HealthyPi 6 is an open-source biosignal acquisition platform available through Crowd Supply, targeting academic research, education, and digital health prototyping. The system supports standalone acquisition and visualization of physiological data without relying on a PC or cloud service. The platform is built around a tri-core processing architecture. The main controller is STMicroelectronics’ STM32H757, combining […]

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week’s Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit…

Linus has released 6.19-rc1, perhaps a bit
earlier than expected.

So it’s Sunday afternoon in the part of the world where I am now,
so if somebody was looking at trying to limbo under the merge
window timing with one last pull request and is taken by surprise
by the slightly unusual timing of the rc1 release, that failed.

Teaching moment, or random capricious acts? You be the judge.

GNOME is tightening its extension review process after a surge in AI-generated submissions filled with unnecessary code and bad practices.

LILYGO has introduced the T-Display P4, a handheld development board built around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 application processor and a companion ESP32-C6 for wireless connectivity. The platform targets portable HMIs, sensor-equipped field devices, and edge systems that require a display, camera support, and multiple radios in a compact enclosure. Measuring about 63 × 109 × 22 mm, […]

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage…

Ariadne Conill is
exploring a capability-based approach to privilege escalation on Linux
systems.

Inspired by the object-capability model, I’ve been working on a
project named capsudo. Instead of
treating privilege escalation as a temporary change of identity,
capsudo reframes it as a mediated interaction with a service called
capsudod that holds specific authority, which may range
from full root privileges to a narrowly scoped set of capabilities
depending on how it is deployed.

Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices…

The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while…

The upcoming Plasma 6.6 release will add custom screen modes and much stronger screen mirroring support for Wayland sessions.

The Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel with the most notable feature addition being initial support for basic directory delegations…