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For those shopping for a high-end desktop power supply for use under Linux and interested in being able to take advantage of sensor monitoring capabilities, the 2025 edition of the Corsair HX1200i PSU can now enjoy working sensor monitoring under Linux...

The Compute Express Link code changes landed this weekend for the Linux 6.17 kernel with development continuing to be quite active around this subsystem for supporting latest and next-generation servers...

Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions  Phoronix

As has been the trend with recent Linux kernel releases, a lot of Rust programming language abstractions and other additions are coming for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

New Linux backdoor Plague bypasses auth via malicious PAM module  Security Affairs

Linux's biggest problem is a lack of apps — but that may not matter to you  xda-developers.com

Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements  Phoronix

All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...

Intel Begins Preparation For Nova Lake By Introducing The First Linux Kernel Patch; Marks The End of Two Decade Old Family 6  Wccftech

Intel Begins Preparation For Nova Lake By Introducing The First Linux Kernel Patch; Marks The End of Two Decade Old Family 6  Wccftech

KaOS Linux: An Indie Distro Built on KDE Plasma  The New Stack

New ‘Plague’ PAM Backdoor Exposes Critical Linux Systems to Silent Credential Theft  The Hacker News

Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant...

All of the HID subsystem device driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.17 merge window...

Linux 6.17 Enables x86 MacBook Pro Touch Bars, Intel THC Wake-On-Touch  Phoronix

Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat Secure Boot requirement could kill its Steam Deck support  Tom's Hardware

I Tested 10 Popular Linux Distros, Here's How I Rank Them  How-To Geek

I took a look at AnduinOS, a Linux distro that feels like home for Windows users  Tom's Hardware

FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop FEX...

While Apple removed FireWire support from the upcoming macOS 26 "Tahoe" release, Linux support for the IEEE-1394 standard continues. With the in-development Linux 6.17 there is some modernization work on the FireWire subsystem code with plan still being to maintain FireWire support on Linux until at least 2029...