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Josef Bacik who is a long-time Btrfs developer and active co-maintainer alongside David Sterba is leaving Meta. Additionally, he's also stepping back from Linux kernel development as his primary job...

Btrfs Developer Josef Bacik Leaving Meta & Stepping Back From Kernel Development  Phoronix

It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Million stepped down after less than one year. Today Deobald announced he is stepping down as the Executive Director...

Linus Torvalds has finally come to a decision following his plans to part ways with the Bcachefs file-system and then not merging any Bcachefs updates for Linux 6.17...

Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained"  Phoronix

Asahi Linux Submits M2 Pro, Max, Ultra Device Trees to Kernel  WebProNews

Why EndeavourOS Is My Next Distro-Hopping Target  How-To Geek

NetPeek is a New, User-Friendly Network Scanner for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

This updated Windows 11 clone is Linux underneath and makes your old PC run faster - get it now  BetaNews

So You've Set Up Linux On Windows Using WSL, Here's What You Can Do With It  How-To Geek

RefreshOS 2.5 mixes desktops but keeps Debian underneath  theregister.com

Linux Kernel Eyes Default BLAKE2s for Faster, Secure Hashing  WebProNews

Armbian 25.8 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 and Debian Trixie  9to5Linux

Fast AMD processor, up to 128 GB RAM and Linux - The InfinityBook Pro 14 leaves a good impression in our review  Notebookcheck

Threat Actors Leveraging Windows and Linux Vulnerabilities in Real-world Attacks to Gain System Access  CyberSecurityNews

3 Cool Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (August 29 - 31)  How-To Geek

Linux 6.17 Yields 37% Performance Boost on AMD EPYC Turin  WebProNews

Fwupd 2.0.14 Adds Support for Framework QMK Devices, SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P  9to5Linux

My top 6 productivity apps for Linux that are lesser known - but shouldn't be  ZDNET

Fwupd 2.0.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that is widely-used on Linux systems for BIOS/system firmware updates as well as an ever increasing array of different peripheral devices...