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#Linux 6.9-rc3 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whDuqyVC6xMkOnNt2EeTd-s4uqa3sYghj5UzkELFW2bpw@mail.gmail.com/
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I sometimes remember this email where Torvalds could not silently have covid/vaccine misinformation passing under his nose.
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04596.html

#Linux 6.9-rc7 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiT0EJV+X-=-dMmL+q3_kyQCxV-WPxb8m8Q6dtWOxjCcg@mail.gmail.com/

Linux 6.8 mit modernem Intel-Grafiktreiber
Linus Torvalds hat den Linux-Kernel 6.8 freigegeben. Der Änderungsumfang sei durchschnittlich, stellt Torvalds fest.
https://www.heise.de/news/Li…

So, my 1000th post (or "toot") here on Mastodon is dedicated to my decades-long passion: Linux!❤️ :linux:
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Or, as Richard Stallmann would insist: GNU/Linux. And of course to its brilliant creator Linus Torvalds and all the many thousands of people who have made the world's largest community project possible since 1991!
And to all those who make Mastodon and especially this instance possible

"Linus Torvalds is just a manager, just check #Linux' commit history, he hardly contributes any changes these days."
There is some truth in statements like that which one bumps into occasionally on the net. Nevertheless they are not drawing an accurate picture at all, as Linus is still heavily involved and every week or two influences development a great deal with insightful and …

#Linux 6.8-rc7 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgwt9b3yMxAQRCVJ0Jh6-4Dz1Fgo2au7g_U9VWVxXoS6Q@mail.gmail.com/
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In case you are on #btrfs and update-grub/grub-probe broke for you with #Linux 6.7 it's time to rejoice: the fix for that regression finally landed in mainline:

#Linux 6.9-rc6 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=witYatGg jW1kVu2Moq6yF2JNFe3wn7G0sMNhE=H=9voA@mail.gmail.com/
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#Linux 6.9-rc6 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=witYatGg jW1kVu2Moq6yF2JNFe3wn7G0sMNhE=H=9voA@mail.gmail.com/
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Kent tried to invent a "this fixes something, but I'm not going to tell you what" tag within the #Linux #kernel development process:
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Me: Draw for me Linus Torvalds pondering whether to use C or Rust in the Linux Kernel
Copilot: I’ll try to create that ...
EDIT: I understand why AI refused this request and I'm glad it did. While this particular request did/could not portray a specific individual in a bad light, in general, requests for pictures with specific people could be nefarious.
#AI

Kent tried to invent a "this fixes something, but I'm not going to tell you what" tag within the #Linux #kernel development process:
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Florian Westphal stepped down as #Linux' #netfilter maintainer
"'"I do not feel that I'm up to the task anymore.
I hope this to be a temporary emergency measure, but for now I'm sure this is the best course of action for me."'"

Florian Westphal stepped down as #Linux' #netfilter maintainer
"'"I do not feel that I'm up to the task anymore.
I hope this to be a temporary emergency measure, but for now I'm sure this is the best course of action for me."'"

Linus does not "want some kind of top-level CI for the base [#Linux] #kernel project":
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Linus does not "want some kind of top-level CI for the base [#Linux] #kernel project":
https:…

Interesting detail in the description of the main EFI changes merged for #Linux 6.9[1]:
"'"Avoid creating mappings that are both writable and executable while running in the EFI boot services. This is a prerequisite for getting the x86 #shim loader signed by MicroSoft again, which allows …

#Linux 6.8-rc6 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whZ=iA6DhijePcW-pJjZ8YD4T5qLpLKVSUT 4gWNm_0sA@mail.gmail.com/
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Mitigations for the "native BHI(Branch History Injection)"[1] hardware vulnerability have just been merged into #Linux mainline: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/2bb6

Neither a "Fixes:" tag, a "stable" tag[1], nor a proper commit message on a #Linux #kernel commit[2] that afaics fixes a ntfs3 regression[3] where data added to a newly created file only becomes visible after a remount or a forced cache drop[4].

#Linux regressions only reported after a long time[1] will be handled as bugs (IOW: the "no regressions" rule does not really apply any more), as this recent mail from Linus shows:
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#Linux 6.9-rc1 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgOw_13JuuX4khpn4K n09cRG3EBQWufAPBWoa0GLLQ0A@mail.gmail.com/
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#Linux 6.9-rc5 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgfck-6-2YcD3Bzhjo0E0L0g2HGSZksB9pzRCah=Y4HBw@mail.gmail.com/
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#Linux 6.8-rc5 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi8vZD7EXZfob-yhfDERyfzWxzMOzG9FsOuaKU-v6 PHA@mail.gmail.com/
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#Linux 6.9-rc4 is out:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whdUP62_7N6s837tTFjvmcGxyRnMGwnVnZwn2fDVf5E8A@mail.gmail.com/
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#Linux #kernel 6.8-rc4 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg1

🥳 My text on verifying #LinuxKernel bugs and bisecting regressions made it to the mainline #kernel for #Linux 6.9:

#Linux 6.8 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiehc0DfPtL6fC2=bFuyzkTnuiuYSQrr6JTQxQao6pq1Q@mail.gmail.com/
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Remember #Linux' old #NTFS driver? It's was removed for #kernel 6.9:

The #DeviceMapper #VDO target, which provides block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning, has been merged for #Linux 6.9: