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For those looking at assembling an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO workstation and interested in having working system sensor monitoring support, the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver is in the process of introducing support for the Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard...

Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE  Phoronix

Linux devs keep ancient Radeon cards kicking  Fudzilla.com

Build Your Dream Linux Laptop : Framework 13 Laptop Review  Geeky Gadgets

Why Windows anti-virus scanners flag Linux ISOs as virus, and what to do  Neowin

Linux UDisks daemon Vulnerability Let Attackers Gaining Access to Files Owned by Privileged Users  CyberSecurityNews

Linux UDisks Daemon Vulnerability Lets Attackers Access Privileged User Files  gbhackers.com

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in  Venturebeat

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