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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

The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever  Tom's Hardware

PoC Exploit Released for Linux-PAM Vulnerability Allowing Root Privilege Escalation  CyberSecurityNews

Linux 6.18-rc2 Will Make Sure To Wipe Stale Information About AMD System Reboots  Phoronix

Linux 6.16 introduced the ability to report the cause of AMD system resets/reboots thanks to specialized information available on AMD Zen platforms for indicating the detected cause of previous resets. This is a handy addition and the information is automatically reported to the kernel log on the next system boot, but in some instances that information could be stale/inaccurate. Today's Linux 6.18-rc2 will fix that...

There has already been hardware monitoring support and other functionality in place under Linux for various AYANEO devices while a new platform driver is being worked on for the new AYANEO 3 device...

Asus ROG Xbox Ally X: YouTuber installs Bazzite Linux to recreate a SteamOS-like experience, but it may not be a good idea  Notebookcheck

AYANEO 3 Modular Handheld Console Prepares For Better Linux Support With New Driver  Phoronix

At the start of the calendar year there was a proposal for a new GCC front-end for the Algol 68 programming language. GCC developers deferred merging Algol 68 support into GCC for this rarely talked about vintage programming language. But as talked about back at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025, the developer is still working on the support. Sure enough, this week brought a new version of this GCC front-end...

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time "RT" kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn't clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately proposing "Parker" for multi-kernel usage just days later. In any event, today a second version of the multi-kernel Linux patches were posted...

Multi-Kernel Architecture Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December...

Windows 10 Support Ends: Users Switch to Linux Like Zorin OS  WebProNews

Back during the Linux 6.18 merge window Linus Torvalds commented on "mindless and completely crazy Rust format checking" and that the RUst format checking "is all bass-ackwards garbage" with condensing multi-line import statements into single lines. Merged minutes ago to Linux Git ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.18-rc2 are fixes to the Rust format checking and updated guidelines to address Torvalds' criticism...

New Code Merged For Linux 6.18 To Address Linus Torvalds' Rust Formatting Critique  Phoronix

I discovered this one Linux feature and it makes Windows look embarrassing  XDA