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Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the "49.rc" tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor components. Some last-minute user-facing changes have landed along with other improvements for polishing ahead of next month's GNOME 49 stable release...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September...

Linux 6.17-rc4 Released With Bcachefs Now "Externally Maintained", Some New Hardware  Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.08 Released With Many Package Updates  Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.08 Released with GNOME 48.4 and Mesa 25.2, KDE Plasma Support  9to5Linux

From Postgres extensions to global spotlight, DocumentDB sparks clash between open source ideals and corporate cloud power politics  TechRadar

Krita Advances with Native Wayland HDR Support on Linux  WebProNews

Ubuntu 25.04 Experimental ISO Boosts Snapdragon X Elite ARM Support  WebProNews

Linux is actually the better OS for gaming—I’m never going back to Windows  MakeUseOf

This week a new Ubuntu X1E Concept ISO was published for Ubuntu 25.04 ARM64 with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop optimizations. With this new ISO the Linux 6.17 kernel is now leveraged for the latest upstream kernel bits. Additionally, the new X1E ISO is finally working again on the Acer Swifth 14 AI laptop that I have used for my Snapdragon X Elite Linux testing...

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Switches To Linux 6.17 Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Still Isn’t Ready To Give Up On 20-Year-Old ATI Radeon GPUs, As Open-Source Developers Push Out a New Update  Wccftech

Why I Won’t Use a Linux Distro Without Flatpak Support  How-To Geek

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays...

Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS  The New Stack

Can Arch Linux Be Your Main PC OS? It's Mine and Here's How  How-To Geek

This morning's "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation...

Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail  Phoronix

Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has merged a set of patches for this Rust-written open-source OpenCL driver to reduce the amount of memory allocations that happen and in turn helping reduce CPU overhead...