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Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks  Phoronix

The sound changes were merged this week for the pngoing Linux 6.18 merge window. There is some interesting new API additions as well as new audio hardware support and enhancements to existing sound drivers...

I replaced WSL with a full Linux VM, and here’s why it's actually better  XDA

After recently carrying out ROCm 7.0 benchmarks on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo", I ran some complementary tests looking at the OpenCL performance. In particular, the ROCm OpenCL performance compared to using the Mesa-based Rusticl OpenCL driver on Strix Halo. It was an interesting benchmark battle with some healthy competition.

In addition to the Arm and RISC-V SoC changes and new platforms/machines added for the Linux 6.18 kernel, the separate Device Tree pull request was merged for this next kernel version that also now adds the strings for the upcoming Arm C1 Nano, Pro, Platinum, and Ultra processor cores...

Linux 6.18 Device Tree Prepares For Arm C1 Nano / Pro / Platinum / Ultra CPUs  Phoronix

Proton Hotfix updated to improve FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.24 Released  Phoronix

Intel today released a new version of their NPU Linux driver user-space components that interface with the upstream IVPU kernel driver...

3 Slick Linux Apps You Should Install This Weekend (October 3 - 5)  How-To Geek

Announced over the summer by Canonical was Stubble as a way to improve the ARM64 experience by providing a minimal UEFI kernel boot stub for loading machine-specific Device Trees embedded within a kernel image. The initial focus with Stubble is on improving the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks to some granted feature freeze exceptions, the support is ready for Ubuntu 25.10...

Ubuntu 25.10 Ready With "Stubble" For Better ARM64 Experience  Phoronix

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for DualSense Controllers on Linux  9to5Linux

Qualcomm Iris Driver Adds H.264/H.265 Encode, Sadly No AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

All of the multimedia subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window...

A new Free Software Foundation president has been elected...

Highly rated creature collectors EvoCreo and EvoCreo 2 are coming to PC with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Steam stable update brings end of life notice for 32-bit Windows and lots of bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

CISA Alert: Sudo Bug Affects Linux and Unix! Urgent Action Required by October 20th  Red Hot Cyber

Top Free GUI Apps Boosting Linux Accessibility for All Users  WebProNews