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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.15 Release Candidate

Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 6.14, and Linux 6.15’s merge window is now closed, which means that it’s time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) development versions every Sunday until the final release in about two months from today.

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.14 on Ubuntu 24.10, Here’s How

Linux kernel 6.14 was released on March 24th, 2025, with new features like Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units).

APT 3.0 Debian Package Manager Released with Revamped Command-Line Interface

APT 3.0 package manager gives users a concise and well-laid-out command-line output when updating, installing, or removing packages via the terminal emulator. The new APT 3.0 command-line interface brings a columnar display that will make it easier for users to scan for a package name.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2024,
updated Nov 15, 2024

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  1. Debian GNU/Linux and Free Software Developer Daniel Pocock in Irish Elections This Month (Dublin Bay South)
    Polling day in 15 days

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  2. Alexander Wirt (formorer), Wayward people & Debian censorship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  3. Gemini Links 14/11/2024: Infocalypse and "Multiple Monitorings"
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  4. Links 14/11/2024: The Web We Lost Coming Back, X/Twitter Crashing
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  5. Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability
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  6. Links 14/11/2024: EmacsConf and Flounder
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  7. Links 14/11/2024: Science and the Demise of Microsoft-Connected USPTO Director
    Links for the day
  8. For "X" to Die the Media and Politicians Will Need to Quit (Then, Advertisers Will Lose Interest, Even for Political Ads)
    Fewer people are still there anyway
  9. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 13, 2024
  11. Bob Should Tell Alice About What GitHub (Which Linux Foundation Outsources Code to) Does to Entire Nations, Following Donald Trump's Policies
    "What's next, preventing access to Linux from non-NATO countries? Putting NSA backdoors in the kernel?"
  12. Layoffs as Happy Stories in the Corporate Media
    It's based on a longstanding pattern
  13. It Took The Guardian More Than 2 Years of Musk to Realise What Twitter Was and It Took Twitter 4 Years of a President Trump to Realise What Trump Was
    Trump was deplatformed only a fortnight before Biden became president anyway
  14. [Meme] Google 80%, Windows 2%
    "I'm going to f-ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f-ing kill Google."
  15. Microsoft's Market Share Falls to 2% in Haiti
    Throw in Android (now 80% of "the market") and Windows is down to 2%
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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