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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...

The Linux version of the original Splitgate has been removed  GamingOnLinux

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 is one of the best supported Snapdragon X Elite laptops under Linux thus far. Thanks to active developer engagement and cooperation from Lenovo there are firmware files in upstream linux-firmware.git and Lenovo's generally robust Linux support make it one of the better choices for the Snapdragon X laptops currently out there. In further enhancing the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 on Linux, a new EC driver has been posted for supporting this Snapdragon powered laptop...

New EC Driver Coming For The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 With Snapdragon X Elite SoC  Phoronix

For those looking at assembling an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO workstation and interested in having working system sensor monitoring support, the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver is in the process of introducing support for the Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard...

Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE  Phoronix

Linux devs keep ancient Radeon cards kicking  Fudzilla.com

Build Your Dream Linux Laptop : Framework 13 Laptop Review  Geeky Gadgets

Why Windows anti-virus scanners flag Linux ISOs as virus, and what to do  Neowin

Linux UDisks daemon Vulnerability Let Attackers Gaining Access to Files Owned by Privileged Users  CyberSecurityNews

Linux UDisks Daemon Vulnerability Lets Attackers Access Privileged User Files  gbhackers.com

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in  Venturebeat

Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the "49.rc" tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor components. Some last-minute user-facing changes have landed along with other improvements for polishing ahead of next month's GNOME 49 stable release...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September...