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Linux 6.17 Sound Code Prepares For Upcoming AMD Hardware  Phoronix

Here's why no one can shut up about Linux gaming  xda-developers.com

Linux Kernel 6.17 Enhances Intel Graphics with DisplayPort and Sync Upgrades  WebProNews

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system...

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows  Phoronix

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture updates have been submitted ahead of the imminent Linux 6.17 merge window...

Linux 6.17 To Support Arm's BRBE  Phoronix

Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs...

Your Linux PC Has Daemons. Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Them  How-To Geek

A bizarre new Linux malware can be found hiding in cute animal photos  MSN

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low...

Nvidia Engineer Pushes for AI Code Disclosure in Linux Kernel Patches  WebProNews

With Linux 6.16 expected to be released on Sunday unless an extra week of testing is deemed necessary, the Linux 6.17 merge window will then kickoff the next day. Based on monitoring the various subsystem "-next" trees and other mailing list activity, here is a look at many of the changes expected for Linux 6.17 barring last minute issues or other objections raised by Linus Torvalds...

AI-Generated Linux Miner 'Koske' Beats Human Malware  Dark Reading | Security

New tool could offer the unthinkable - an easy, in-place upgrade to Linux for a Windows 10 PC, if it can't run Windows 11  TechRadar

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities...

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system...

Linux and Raspberry Pi Save a Printer! @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi  Adafruit

Ditch cd: 3 Powerful Linux Tools to Navigate Directories at Warp Speed  How-To Geek