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Linux 6.17 Debuts AMD-Led Granular CPU Security Controls for Spectre  WebProNews

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...

Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%  Phoronix

Xojo 2025 R1: Linux ARM Support, Web Drag-and-Drop, App Store Boost  WebProNews

Ubuntu 25.10 Enhances Full-Disk Encryption with TPM 2.0 Security  WebProNews

I replaced default Linux commands with these 5 alternatives, and I should have sooner  xda-developers.com

Bcachefs Gains Momentum in Linux 6.17 Amid Torvalds Disputes  WebProNews

Intel Layoffs Spark Maintainer Changes in Linux 6.17 Drivers  WebProNews

Linux 6.17 Boosts EXT4 with Scalable Block Allocation for Major Gains  WebProNews

In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...

Gadget geeks aghast at guru's geriatric GPU  theregister.com

Why Linux Is My IDE  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds today merged the initial deferred unwinder infrastructure into the Linux 6.17 kernel on the path toward enabling SFrame stack trace format support...

Deferred Unwinder Code Upstreamed For Linux 6.17 On Road To SFrame Support  Phoronix

KDE Is Making Its Own Linux Distro, and You Can Try It  How-To Geek

Ubiquiti's new Unifi OS Server allows users to run UniFi OS on their own Windows, macOS or Linux hardware  Notebookcheck

Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "Family 18" umbrella...

Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs  Phoronix

The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads...

Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations  Phoronix