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My favorite Linux graphic desktop environment will soon prod you if your printer ink is low  xda-developers.com

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days...

My Laptop Couldn't Upgrade to Windows 11, So I Switched to Linux  How-To Geek

Is the Linux kernel moving toward "vibe coding"? Rules for using AI assistants are coming soon.  Red Hot Cyber

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...

5 Best Linux Distros with Native NVIDIA GPU Support  How-To Geek

I'm not upgrading to Windows 11, but I'm not tolerating Linux either  xda-developers.com

Koske: Linux Malware Developed with Artificial Intelligence  Red Hot Cyber

How Does OpenMandriva Lx 'Rock' Stack Against Fedora? My Thoughts  It's FOSS News

Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power  StartupNews.fyi

Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power  The New Stack

5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android  It's FOSS

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted already the sound code feature changes ready for Linux 6.17...

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...