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

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 18:06
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...

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

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 17:55
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...

GNOME Shell & Mutter Land Last Minute Additions Ahead Of GNOME 49

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:04
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...

Linux 6.17-rc4 Released With Bcachefs Now "Externally Maintained", Some New Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 07:10
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...

AerynOS 2025.08 Released With Many Package Updates

Phoronix - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 06:26
AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS...

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