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Zotac Zone Pro Ryzen 9 Linux Gaming Handheld Set To Challenge ROG Xbox Ally  HotHardware

Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement to these smoke detectors discontinued by Google, the Gentex PLACE smart smoke detectors are an interesting and capable alternative. Being faced by needing to find a replacement to Nest Protects myself that have now expired and finding many others in the same boat with no clear winning smart smoke detector right now, I decided to go with the Gentex PLACE and figured it worthwhile to share a bit of my experience.

A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

8 More Free Linux Games Based on Classics  How-To Geek

The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025...

Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS  Phoronix

Linux 6.17-rc4 has notable updates  Techzine Global

Linux gaming OS Kazeta promises ‘console gaming experience of the 1990s’ for PC users — supports almost any DRM-free game, past or present  Tom's Hardware

Linux Lite 7.6 is the perfect Windows 11 alternative for older PCs  BetaNews

Critical Linux Vulnerability: CVSS 8.5 Vulnerability Discovered in UDisks Daemon  Red Hot Cyber

Get some amazing puzzle games in the Draknek & Friends Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Releases ProcMon for Linux: Open-Source eBPF Syscall Tracer  WebProNews

ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience  GamingOnLinux

3 Reasons I Avoid Manjaro Even Though I Love Arch Linux  How-To Geek

Classic Marathon trilogy on Steam now has Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable  Phoronix

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau", with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience...

DXVK 2.7.1 brings performance improvements for some Direct3D 9 games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 spots for the most viewed content... Something no single vendor has pulled off in the past 21 years of Phoronix. But with the launch of the Framework Desktop, AMD Krackan Point Linux testing for sub-$500 laptops, Threadripper 9000 series, and other hardware excitement, that feat happened in August...

In addition to working on new OpenCL performance optimizations, Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst just landed another important feature into Rusticl: OpenCL semaphores...