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Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support


ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares his list of "what's new and improved" in the latest Linux 6.16 kernel. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boa...

At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI device subsystem. These boosts include faster commit paths, large folio support, and atomic multi-fsblock writes for bigalloc filesystems. If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep.

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