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In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...

GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting...

Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...

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...