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Linux 6.15 RC1 released!

As we’ve predicted, Linux 6.15 RC1 has been released for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to more hardware support, such as MacBook Touch Bar support, exFAT file deletion performance improvements, and memory management improvements, have been landed to this version of Linux, alongside initial support for Copilot PCs, including the ASUS Zenbook A14.

In the release announcement for this version of the kernel, Linus Torvalds said:

It’s been two weeks, and the merge window is now over.

As expected, this was one of the bigger merge windows, almost certainly just because we had some pent-up development due to the previous releases being impacted by the holiday season.

That said, while it’s bigger than normal, it’s not some kind of record-breaking thing: we’ve had bigger releases, although not many. The really big releases tend to be due to some long-running major development being finally merged after many years, and this is not that: this is just the “regular” kind of big.

It’s big in both number of commits and in lines changed. The stats look fairly normal, with – once again – another AMD GPU register header file drop adding a ton of lines and standing out. But while that is a big chunk in itself, it doesn’t dominate the diff – there’s a lot of changes all over.

As always, below is the high-level “this is what I merged” view, which gives a flavor of what’s been going on, although it’s obviously colored by how certain subsystems send in their development in more digestible and separate chunks, while other subsystems are less granular. So while it gives some idea of what’s been going on, you’d need to look at the git tree to drill down into the particulars.

But at a high level it all looks very normal, with two thirds of the patch being driver updates, and the rest being a fairly random mix of the usual architecture updates, filesystems, core kernel (scheduling, timers, MM, networking), and misc infrastructucture (devicetree bindings, more rust infrastructure, zstd update, you name it).

Let’s hope that despite the fairly sizable drop of new code, this release ends up going as smoothly as the previous ones.

It’s indeed sizable as he put it, because there were lots of interesting changes being done to support more hardware while improving core parts of the kernel, especially when it comes to CPU scheduling and timers.

Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 6.15, which will be released in under 2 months?

#Computer #Computers #Kernel #Laptop #Laptops #Linux #LinuxKernel #news #Tech #Technology #update

Microsoft thinks you should recycle pcs that can't be upgraded to windows 11...

Please do not do this. Try linux or give them to someone else who will, or donate them to charitable organizations.

Goblins need spare computers everywhere!

#question
Can we have a #hashtag on here for people who wish to discard perfectly good computers, so other people on here who are less fortunate can get them and use linux or something?

Any opinions on a best hashtag for that?

*edit @generationX mentioned a hashtag, #computertruhe (which is a group or the german equivalent to this paying it forward of computers or related parts, and is active on mastodon!) This may translate to #computerchest and is the best lead on a relevant hashtag for this purpose so far!

*edit edit A lot of passion for this! :)
Other suggestions for hashtags now include
#takemytech to be established for this purpose!(@Cyclist )
#retux (for games?)
possibly #upcycling
#sparePChere suggested!

@PCsfueralle for Austria, like computertruhe for DE

#LinuxInstallParty may be relevant! DE I think!

#Debian 12 Bookworm made installation and GUI much easier than previous versions, including nonfree repositories for proprietary driver support! Debian 13 Trixie (stable) drops later this year. It is upstream and all about open source, as a Linux option.

#mastodon #windows #windows10 #recyclewindows10 #policy #terriblepolicy #linux #payitforward #charity #computer #computerrepair #goblinsolutions