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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

The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC...

Samsung Exynos 7870 Seeing New Open-Source Driver Activity For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Linux in Crisis: Rust Splits Community and Maintainers Leave  Red Hot Cyber

The Rust-based open-source operating system project Redox OS published a blog post today outlining their development priorities for the remainder of 2025 and then onward to 2026...

SUSE Drops Bcachefs Support in Linux 6.17 Kernels Amid Disputes  WebProNews

I moved away from Windows 11, but I didn't go to Linux  xda-developers.com

I Dream of a Linux Device With a Folding Screen  How-To Geek