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I Gave The Linux cd Command Superpowers, Here's How  How-To Geek

Due to Intel CPU microcode sizes continuing to get larger and late-loading new CPU microcode onto a running system can lead to (brief) disruptions/downtime while the update is applied, future Intel CPUs are introducing a microcode "staging" feature to reduce that microcode updating downtime. The Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year is set to support the Intel microcode staging feature with capable processors...

Intel Introducing Microcode Staging Feature For Linux 6.19 To Cope With Bigger Blobs  Phoronix

VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 Released with New Features  OMG! Ubuntu

You can benefit from Linux, even if you keep using Windows  XDA

Sidero Labs to Extend Scope of Talos Linux Platform for Kubernetes  Cloud Native Now

Intrusions with Cisco SNMP bug facilitate Linux rootkit deployment  SC Media

Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On System76 Thelio Astra / Ampere Altra  Phoronix

With the recent release of Ubuntu 25.10 we have seen some nice performance improvements on the likes of AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake compared to prior Ubuntu releases. But what about ARM? In this article is a look at the Ampere Altra performance between Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10 using the popular System76 Thelio Astra workstation.

Improvements to the Linux kernel's AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 processors with the Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year...

AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19  Phoronix

The popular physics sandbox game Brick Rigs has added Native Linux support  GamingOnLinux

3 Obscure but Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (October 17 - 19)  How-To Geek

Together AI founder suggests an AI consortium to preserve competition  The Business Journals

LinkPro Rootkit Attacking GNU/Linux Systems Using eBPF Module to Hide Malicious Activities  Cyber Security News

In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new patch series was sent out this week for the Linux kernel. The patches rework some low-level Linux kernel memory management code and at least for database workloads the early benchmarks are showing possible 14~18% faster database performance with PostgreSQL...

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance  Phoronix

With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year's Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume...

One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for supporting the low-latency hint supported by the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

Ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc2 release on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the week were sent out today. There is the usual assortment of different kernel graphics driver fixes, mostly with the Intel and AMD drivers as usual. In particular a few Intel driver fixes make this week's pull worth mentioning...