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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 28th, 2025

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Linux Kernel 6.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 6.17 include support for ARM’s “Branch Record Buffer Extension” (BRBE), support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), Intel Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake-S support, initial support for the HEVC(H.265) and VP9 codecs in Qualcomm’s Iris decoder, which is supported by the Video 4 Linux (V4L2) driver.

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.09 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the latest KDE Gear 25.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.18 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9.2 open-source application framework.

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Tiny RISC-V Development Board with WCH CH32V317WCU6 Available from $6.80

The board is powered by the WCH CH32V317WCU6, a RISC-V microcontroller capable of running at up to 144MHz. The chip features a USB 2.0 high-speed controller alongside a full-speed controller, a 10/100M Ethernet MAC with a physical layer transceiver, SDIO support, DVP for digital video input, and advanced motor PWM timers.

DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access

The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and software.

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 28th, 2025

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 29, 2025

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup

This week, we got Linux 6.17 as the next major kernel series, RPM 6.0 as the next-generation package management system for RHEL-based distros, a major update of the OBS Studio screen recording and live streaming software, the COSMIC Beta desktop, and a new OTA update of the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS.

We also got new snapshots of Kali Linux and KaOS Linux distros, the beta release of MX Linux 25, and the Raspberry Pi 500+. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for September 28th, 2025.

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