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As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases...

Linux 6.17 Released: Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Ready, New Optimizations  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Bcachefs Announces First-Tier Arch & NixOS Support, Post-Experimental Release EOY  Phoronix

Ahead of the stable Linux 6.17 kernel release expected in the coming hours, Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet put out a blog post around the current multi-Linux distribution support for the out-of-tree DKMS packages for this copy-on-write file-system, some of their plans moving forward, and still aiming to graduate from the "experimental" phase at the end of the year...

The Smoothest Way to Send Clipboard Text and Files Between Your Android and PC  How-To Geek

GraalVM has been an interesting and performant Java JDK that over time added support for additional programming languages and execution models. Following their 2022 announcement that GraalVM CE Java code would be donated to OpenJDK, Oracle recently announced that moving forward GraalVM will focus on non-Java languages...

Over a decade later, AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs still receive Linux updates from one Valve developer  VideoCardz.com

Tor: The Easiest Way to Securely Browse the Web on Linux  The New Stack

Cybersecurity Newsletter Weekly – Chrome 0-Day, 22.2 Tbps DDOS Attack, Kali Linux Release, Cisco IOS 0-Day...  Cyber Security News

Linux 6.18 To Deliver Many Notable Features For AMD CPUs  Phoronix

There is a lot coming for AMD processors with the Linux 6.18 kernel. Of the early pull requests submitted in advance of the planned Linux 6.17 kernel release later today, there are a number of changes already lined up with some exciting AMD CPU feature additions for the next kernel version. These AMD changes for Linux 6.18 are all the more important with that kernel expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command  How-To Geek

Adding to the list of pull requests submitted early in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening are several cryptography-related improvements. In particular, some nice performance optimizations once again for the Linux kernel...

Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Introduced two years ago was the Intel/Codeplay oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL support to new hardware. As part of that the oneAPI Construction Kit was brought to RISC-V and other platforms. Out this week is now oneAPI Construction Kit 5.0 and sadly it drops Vulkan API support...

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08  9to5Linux

Following the release earlier this year of the Fish 4.0 shell that was ported from C++ to Rust, Fish 4.1 was released this weekend as the next major feature release...

The Linux kernel's audit subsystem/framework for greater insight into system activity for security purposes will now be able to properly cope with multiple Linux Security Modules (LSMs)...

3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier  How-To Geek