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For those wondering how the AMD 3D V-Cache performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is looking on Linux relative to Microsoft Windows, a few weeks back I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Windows 11 25H2 against Ubuntu Linux both the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS release and an Ubuntu 25.10 development build using both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors.

GIMP Developers Take Control of Official Snap Package for Linux  WebProNews

⚡ Weekly Recap: F5 Breached, Linux Rootkits, Pixnapping Attack, EtherHiding & More  The Hacker News

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel could land initial Tenstorrent vendor support and provide initial support for the Blackhole SoC with the initial Blackhole P100/P150 PCIe accelerator cards...

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