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Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS Released with Initial Support for the Rust Programming Language

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9to5Linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability for download of the Linux 6.1 kernel series, which comes with new and updated drivers for better hardware support, new features, and many other changes.

More than two months in the works, Linux kernel 6.1 is here to introduce experimental support for the Rust programming language. While this may sound very exciting for some, you should keep in mind that "experimental" means that it’s only a very basic implementation of Rust that cannot be used for any real-world use cases.

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