Source repository for stable and long-term maintenance releases of the Linux Kernel. After each mainline version of the Linux kernel is released, it will be converted to a stable branch for maintenance. Stable releases backport bugfixes from the mainline and are maintained by designated stable branch maintainers. There are usually only a few bugfix kernel […]
The ACPI 6.5 specification, released last August, introduced support for the LoongArch/RISC-V architecture. recently,A groupBy RISC-V startup Ventana Micro Systems which provided The Linux kernel patch provides basic ACPI infrastructure support for the RISC-V processor architecture. The full name of ACPI is Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface, advanced configuration and power management interface. Operating
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Wine-CE (Chimera Edition, Cross-architecture Emulator) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Cross-architecture paltform of Linux. It is base on Wine Project and Qemu Project. Wine-CE (Chimera architecture, cross-instruction architecture emulator) is a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux systems with different instruction set architectures. It is based on the
Freespire is a community-driven Linux distribution derived from Linspire. Freespire 1.0 is based on Debian, and Freespire 2.0 and later are based on Ubuntu. The PC/OS open source development team recently released version 9.0 of Freespire, some of the changes include: XFCE 4.18 Linux 5.15 Firefox web browser Thunderbird 102.42 OnlyOffice office suite GIMP 2.10.32
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The DRM-Next branch of Linux 6.3 submits a new drm-misc-next pull request that most importantly cleans up seven old DRM drivers for legacy hardware that are no longer available in open source maintenance, its supporting code will also be removed from the kernel. The main ones that were removed were the following DRM drivers: i810,
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The results of JetBrains’ sixth annual developer ecosystem survey, The State of Developer Ecosystem 2022, have been released.The report is based on responses from 29,000 of more than 38,000 developers who participated in last year’s survey,About 91% of respondents identify as male;Various topics in the developer ecosystem are explored in depth. Some key takeaways from
Early last year, developers at SUSE submitted a v2 patch to the Linux kernel that marks the ReiserFS file system as deprecated and will officially remove it from the kernel in 2025. The reason for the removal is primarily that the filesystem has not been active for over a decade and is unlikely to be
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MX Linux is a mid-weight Linux operating system based on the Debian stable, using the core components of antiX, plus additional software created or packaged by the MX community. MX Linux 21.3 is the third update to the MX Linux 21 release, which includes bug fixes, kernel and application updates. This version is a relatively
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At the beginning of October last year, Linux 6.0 was officially released. At that time, the new version brought a lot of new features/functions, such as F2FS low memory mode, asynchronous buffered writing when using XFS and io_uring, support for RISC-V and AArch64 (ARM64 ) improvements to the hardware architecture, and new features and improvements
In the next Linux kernel cycle, driver support for Microsoft’s Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol may be disabled upstream due to security concerns. RNDIS is Microsoft’s proprietary protocol for virtual Ethernet functionality over USB. However, the RNDIS protocol was designed with insufficient security considerations, and it is possible to connect the system to
Mir 2.11 has been released. Updates include: ABI: The miral ABI remains unchanged at 5 mircommon ABI remains unchanged at 9 The mircookie ABI remains unchanged at 2 mircore ABI remains unchanged at 2 Miroil ABI upgraded to 3 The mirplatform ABI remains unchanged at 23 mirserver ABI remains unchanged at 58 mirwayland ABI remains
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After more than six years of long-term support, the Linux 4.9 kernel series has finally reached end-of-life in the newly released Linux 4.9.337 update. The Linux 4.9 kernel is now appropriately marked as EOL on the kernel.org website, which means it will no longer receive maintenance and security updates. Well-known kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced
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Google engineer James Houghton has sent two rounds of patches to the kernel to bring the concept of HugeTLB High Granular Mapping (HGM) into the Linux kernel. He has currently sent a total of 46 patchsets in post-RFC status for review. Linux memory management adopts “paging mechanism”. When the running memory demand is large, too
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Vanilla OS is a recently released Linux distribution, built on Ubuntu, free and open source, and the default desktop environment is GNOME. Although the base layer of Vanilla OS is Ubuntu, it is not simply a “remix” based on Ubuntu, and it does not look like Ubuntu. Vanilla OS technology stack composition: Ubuntu — GNOME
