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.

TrixiePup64 11.2 is out today as

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 x86 platform driver changes for Linux 6.19 include new drivers like for Uniwill OEM laptops as well as improving handheld support for ASUS ROG, Lenovo Legion, and Ayaneo, among other changes:

- The Acer WMI

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 bpftune daemon supports auto-tuning of Linux via BPF observability. With bpftune there is continuous monitoring of the Linux system and adjusting of system behavior at a fine-grain level. A big emphasis on bpftune is making it easier to manage the large

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.

NFS directory delegations allow for an efficiency win by knowing if nobody else modified the directory on the NFS server then there are some re-validation shortcuts than can be subsequently taken by the NFS client. This work was pursued by Oracle to allow for better NFS efficiency when knowing a particular directory hasn't changed from underneath the client. For

The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday.

While the RTC driver changes are typically not too notable, with Linux 6.19 there are new RTC drivers introduced for Apple and NVIDIA hardware.

On the Apple Silicon side is upstreaming the "rtc-macsmc" driver written by Hector Martin back when he was leading the Asahi Linux project. This driver is for the RTC that is part of Apple's PMU IC

The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code.

Due to the growing number of SNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected:

"Extensions must not be AI-generated

While it is not prohibited to

The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant.

While most CPU architectures went from a 32-bit to 64-bit world, Loongson is working back from 64-bit to 32-bit. They've been

Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to "conclude the Rust experiment". The "experiment" of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it's now accepted to be a success and "Rust is here to stay" in the kernel.

Following discussions at the Linux Plumbers Conference this week in Japan, Miguel Ojeda is now comfortable in declaring Rust for the Linux kernel a success in being able to drop the "experiment" flag on the effort. Ojeda

It's an exciting week in KDE Plasma development land ahead of the holidays. Plasma 6.6 continues tacking on more feature work for Wayland.

This week the KDE Plasma screen mirroring support under Wayland is in good shape for Plasma 6.6 along with other exciting changes:

- "Massively improved" support for screen mirroring under the Wayland session for Plasma 6.6. This bug report since February 2024 has sought proper output mirroring support for KDE on Wayland. With Plasma 6.6 next year