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This Arch-based Linux distro has a clean, privacy-focused experience for tinkerers  ZDNet

Torvalds warns of ‘chaotic’ merge window for Linux kernel 6.17  Developer Tech News

Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggressively update to new interim versions tracking upstream, except that will now change to allow for better kernel test coverage...

Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development  Phoronix

AI will drive more workforce expansion for tech pros than reduction, Linux Foundation reports  Network World

Xinnor claims massive RAID rebuild speedup over Linux mdraid  Blocks and Files

My 5 favorite Linux distros for home office desktops - and I've tried them all  ZDNet

I've tested nearly every distro - these 5 rock‑solid Linux OSes run my home office  ZDNet

While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-speed even while idle...

New FBI Warning — Windows And Linux Users Must Apply 2FA Now  Forbes

Asahi Linux: Reverse-Engineering Apple Silicon for Open-Source Triumph  WebProNews

Intel's accelerator efforts in recent generations of Xeon processors have been challenging to say the least. From limited software support and configuration obstacles to some current-generation accelerators not being safe for VM use due to security issues to having to deal with higher latency and other nuances if wanting to achieve decent performance. One of the Linux kernel users of Intel's QuickAssist Technology "QAT" accelerators has been the FSCRYPT code for native file encryption support. But the Linux kernel with the FSCRYPT usage is now demoting the Intel QAT accelerator support along with other problem-causing accelerator drivers...

Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow  Phoronix

Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code  Phoronix

The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support...

Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers...

Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware  Phoronix

For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu 25.10 this October that support will finally be in good shape...

Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental  Phoronix

The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the performance events code in Linux 6.17 only now landing the perf integration...