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Intel Loses Key Linux USB4 and Thunderbolt Maintainer Mika Westerberg  WebProNews

The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September...

Linux 6.17-rc6 Released With VMSCAPE Mitigation, FLYDIGI APEX 5 Support & Fixes  Phoronix

I tried turning my old Android phone into a Linux server, but ended up distro-hopping instead  xda-developers.com

Installing Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta  Daily Kos

7 Linux Distributions I Tested in the Past Year, Ranked  Yahoo! Tech

7 Linux Distributions I Tested in the Past Year, Ranked  How-To Geek

MKVToolNix 95.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the Chapter Generation Feature  9to5Linux

GStreamer 1.26.6 Adds Support for WVC1 and WMV3 Codecs to Video4Linux2  9to5Linux

8 Linux User Management Tricks With the usermod Command  How-To Geek

4 MX Linux Tools that I miss while using Ubuntu and other Linux distros  XDA

4 MX Linux Tools that I miss while using Ubuntu and other Linux distros  xda-developers.com

This niche Fedora-based Linux distro ‘just works’ and stays out of your way as much as possible  xda-developers.com

4 Things Linux Has Taught Me About Open Source  How-To Geek

Intel Panther Lake gets performance uplift with latest Mesa update  KitGuru

It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB4/Thunderbolt maintainers departing the company...

FLYDIGI APEX 5 Controller Support Landing In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

The input subsystem fixes for the week were sent out on Saturday ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc6 kernel due out later today. Notable with this batch of "fixes" is enabling support for the high-end FLYDIGI APEX 5 gaming controller...

Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models...

Select Qualcomm X Elite Laptops Seeing IRIS Video Acceleration On Linux  Phoronix