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Over the summer months LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan-on-Metal implementation for Apple devices and built around Mesa. That alternative to MoltenVK was upstreamed for next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release and now it's also celebrating being an officially Vulkan 1.3 conformant implementation...

Switching to Linux From Windows: 5 Pros and 5 Cons You Need to Consider  Currently.com

Switching to Linux From Windows: 5 Pros and 5 Cons You Need to Consider  How-To Geek

SUSE Brings Agentic AI into its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Operating System  ChannelE2E

AerynOS 2025.10 Released with GNOME 49.1, KDE Plasma 6.5, and GNU libstdc++  9to5Linux

Linux users have no reason to worry about recent AMD GPU driver changes  GamingOnLinux

Yesterday Canonical announced architecture variants for Ubuntu Linux with Ubuntu 25.10 seeing the introduction of "amd64v3" packages that are built for the x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level to assume AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU ISA features found since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator processors. Eager to run some initial tests, here is a first look at the Ubuntu 25.10 amd64v3 performance for desktop workloads.

CISA: High-severity Linux flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs  BleepingComputer

CISA: High-severity Linux flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs  BleepingComputer

3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 31 - November 2)  How-To Geek

Over the past day there have been many reports of AMD planning to no longer provide game optimizations for the Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series graphics cards for their Microsoft Windows driver. Surprisingly many in the Linux community still seem to think it will impact the Linux drivers, but long story short, there is no real concern for Linux users/gamers...

AMD Windows Driver Changes For RX 5000/6000 Series Won't Impact Linux Users  Phoronix

DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake out now and Steam Deck Playable  GamingOnLinux

Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap  theregister.com

Linux 6.18-rc4 Fixes Another Performance Regression In The Power Management Code  Phoronix

Last week there was a fix for a "serious performance regression" in the Linux kernel's power management code that affected some Intel-powered Chromebooks. This week the power management fixes ahead of Linux 6.18-rc4 is addressing another performance regression...

CERT-In Warns Google Chrome Users of High-Risk Flaws on Windows, macOS, and Linux  Gadgets 360

SUSE Unveils First Enterprise Linux With Built-In Agentic AI  bernama

Researchers Build Linux Rootkit That Evades Elastic Security EDR Detection  Cyber Press

AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs were released today for closing out the month of October. AerynOS as a reminder is the Linux distribution that was started by Ikey Doherty and originally known as Serpent OS that has since evolved into an open-source team effort...