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Ubuntu Launches Architecture-Specific Variants for Optimal Performance  WebProNews

Proton VPN’s 2025-2026 Roadmap: Free Servers, Faster Speeds, Linux CLI  WebProNews

Old Linux Kernel flaw CVE-2024-1086 resurfaces in ransomware attacks  Security Affairs

Designing for reliability: How Nokia SR Linux and Event-Driven Automation transform data center network design  Nokia

Kodi 21.3 Improves Blu-Ray Playback on Linux, Adds HDR Support on Xbox One  9to5Linux

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