The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans

panida wijitpanya/Getty Images Linus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for a few hours, Torvalds said, "because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour," but Linux 6.15 is here and ready for you to download and tinker with. Also: Should you ever pay for Linux? 5 times I would - and why The newest feature that caught my eye was that, for the first time, we have a Rust-based driver in the mainline kernel. Linux Rust fans have been waiting for this development for a long time. Oh, and by the way, this is not just "another driver". The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, named NOVA, empowers Nvidia's next-generation open-source graphics hardware. The driver targets Nvidia's RTX 2000 "Turing" series and newer GPUs. NOVA aims to replace the existing third-party open-source Nouveau Nvidia drivers. Also: 10 Linux apps I install on every new machine (and ... Read full article.