New hardware supported includes XP-PEN Deco L drawing tablet, a swathe of sensors on AMD motherboards, including Sensor Fusion Hub support on newer Ryzen laptops, and functional Thunderbolt on Intel Raptor Lake. Talking of laptops Linux enthusiasts use, some TUXEDO Computers and Clevo laptops had issues with touchpads and keyboard when resuming from suspend in earlier kernel versions.

The ThinkPad X13s is pre-loaded with Windows 11 for ARM but, with Linux support now in the formative stages, this could be a great reference device for Linux ARM enthusiasts. The (expensive) Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop, which runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3, starts to pick up support. RISC-V also ships with a new default configuration capable of running Docker from the get-go. Those noticing keyboard issues on Ryzen 6000 series laptop should, if using Linux 6.0, find things once-again function as expected.īoth the OpenRISC and LoongArch architectures gain support for PCI buses, while RISC-V buffs up its cache block management capabilities using a number of new extensions, including the “Zicbom” extension. This include support for Intel’s fourth generation Xeon server chips “Sapphire Rapids”, and their 13th generation “Raptor Lake” core chips.ĪMD provides a kernel graphics driver for their RDNA 3 GPU, land a new audio driver for AMD ‘Raphael’ platforms and improve the audio support for AMD ‘Jadeite’ systems. Linux 6.0 also does some mandatory future-proofing by laying groundwork for swathes of upcoming hardware. Seeing Linux squeeze more power while using less power is always a welcome one. Benchmarking done by Phoronix reveals appreciable performance improvements across Intel Xeon ‘Ice Lake’, AMD Ryzen ‘Threadripper’, and AMD EPYC processors thanks to scheduler changes and other kernel energy tweaks.

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