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Initial Tenstorrent Blackhole Support Aiming For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Windows 10's demise could be Linux's gain if the flood of defectors is anything to go by  inkl

Is Linux doing well off the back of Windows 10's demise? One distro is as Zorin OS boasts about a flood of new recruits  TechRadar

These Are My Favorite Portable Linux Apps to Keep on a Flash Drive  Currently.com

These Are My Favorite Portable Linux Apps to Keep on a Flash Drive  How-To Geek

As Windows 10 Support Ends, Majority Of Users Are Migrating To Linux  Tech4Gamers

PoC Released for Linux-PAM Vulnerability Enabling Local Root Privilege Escalation  GBHackers News

Well this wasn't on my bingo card for 2025... There is now yet another NTFS file-system driver for Linux. There's long been the read-only NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, the more capable NTFS FUSE driver in user-space, and then in recent years the NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel by Paragon Software. NTFS3 offers read/write support and other improvements over the prior kernel driver. Now there is "NTFSPLUS" as a new driver with read/write support and claiming to offer better performance and features than NTFS3...

Earlier this month Intel Linux graphics driver engineers began posting the initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement code with a focus on the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake. Xe3P will also later be found in Intel discrete graphics cards like Crescent Island and more. That very early Intel Xe3P code is now expected to be merged as part of the Linux 6.19 kernel as what will be the first Linux kernel release of 2026...

It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties...

How I turned a Gaming Mini-PC into my first home server  overkill.wtf

Xubuntu website compromised, hackers targeting users with fake downloads  Cybernews

Xubuntu's website was hacked to spread a malware, fixed now  gHacks Technology News

Linux 6.18-rc2 is now available with another week's worth of fixes for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Linux 6.18-rc2 Released: "rc2 is on the bigger side"  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 19th, 2025  9to5Linux

I used Linux exclusively for five months instead of Windows, and I was surprised by what I didn't miss  XDA

Critical vulnerability in Linux-PAM: Privilege escalation with CVE-2025-8941  Red Hot Cyber

A high-performance, versatile text editor available on macOS and Linux  actiward.net

DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core  Tom's Hardware