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Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned, more patches hit the public Linux kernel mailing list to mark additional Intel drivers as orphaned and removing maintainer entries for Linux developers no longer at Intel...

Should I nuke my Linux install from orbit and do a fresh install?  [H]ard|Forum

There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as its new maintainer...

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs  Phoronix

We still don't know what's going to happen for Bcachefs in the Linux 6.17 kernel even with the merge window set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release. Linus Torvalds commented over one month ago that they would be parting ways for Linux 6.17. At the start of the Linux 6.17 merge window a Bcachefs pull request was submitted but nearly two weeks later it's still not been pulled and Linus Torvalds hasn't commented on the matter...

AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"  Phoronix

A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the RDNA4 Kicker variant...

5 Hidden Weaknesses in Your Linux Stack—And How Attackers Exploit Them  Morphisec

Last week the Threadripper 9000 series began shipping and as shown in our launch-day Linux testing there was stunning performance with the 32-core Threadripper 9970X and 64-core Threadripper 9980X processors. Beyond the improvements thanks to the Zen 5 microarchitecture enhancements, the new Threadrippers while working as a drop-in replacement to existing TRX50 workstation motherboards now can handle DDR5-6400 R-DIMMs up from DDR5-4800 R-DIMMs with the Threadripper 7000 series. For those wondering about the gain attributed to the faster memory modules, here are benchmarks looking at the DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6400 real-world performance impact for AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9970X and 9980X CPUs.

DDR5-6400 vs. DDR5-4800 R-DIMM Performance For Threadripper 9980X / 9970X CPUs  Phoronix

3 Ways to Test a Linux Distro Without Using a USB Drive  How-To Geek

While we eagerly await the release of ROCm 7.0, ROCm 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to the ROCm 6.4 open-source GPU compute stack...

AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a "fair use" quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving system and device firmware to customers...

LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code  Phoronix

11 Go packages hide malicious commands targeting Linux and Windows  SC Media

OpenLinkHub for managing iCUE LINK Hub and various Corsair devices on Linux expands device support  GamingOnLinux

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets expanded support for older AMD GPUs  GamingOnLinux

Linux Desktop Market Share Tops 6%, Poised for 10% by 2030  WebProNews

My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives  ZDNET