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Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 17:52
The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...

SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 08:20
SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...

Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 03:53
While Linux 5.13 back in 2021 added support for the Apple Magic Mouse 2, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel is there support arriving for the USB-C version of the Apple Magic Mouse 2 that debuted last year...

Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 00:09
The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in July. As is usually the case, there are a number of Intel and AMD platform updates along with a wide assortment of driver improvements primarily for laptops from the major OEMs/ODMs...

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