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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...

Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Linux 6.16 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures  CNX Software

Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and carving out other bits of the Linux kernel not meeting their stringent free software standards...

Linux Kernel 6.17 NTFS3 Update Fixes Windows Symlink Handling  WebProNews

Linux 6.16 Adds Critical Bcachefs Fixes to Avert Data Loss  WebProNews

Linux 6.16 released, Torvalds fears delay for 6.17  Techzine Global

Latest Linux Kernel 6.16 is all Focused on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA  It's FOSS News

Linux 6.16 Released with OpenVPN Speed Boost, 5-Level Paging + More  OMG! Ubuntu

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...

Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX  Phoronix

7 Linux Apps I Install on Every New PC  How-To Geek

These 5 Linux distros are perfect for reviving PCs that can't handle Windows 11  xda-developers.com

I Played This Free Linux Skills Game and Learned 6 New Commands  How-To Geek

Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship  OMG! Ubuntu