Researchers say ‘Proto-X’ fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boostsAutomated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…

Oracle recently launched their E6 compute shape for Oracle Cloud and powered by AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” processors. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also launched their Compute Cloud@Customer X11 and Private Cloud Appliance X11 platforms that are all powered by the E6 compute shape with 5th Gen AMD EPYC. For those curious about the performance and value of the Oracle Cloud E6 shape compared to prior-gen E5 as well as alternatives from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, these benchmarks are geared for you.

OpenZFS 2.4 stable should be out in the near future while out today is the third release candidate for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems…

The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 lands with WSL GPU support, while the Terra repo gets faster builds and improved performance.

Google engineer Rahman Lavaee today announced their work on a prototype software implementation to automatically insert optimal code prefetches into binaries for faster performance, especially for the latest Intel Granite Rapids and AMD Turin processors with new prefetching instructions…

Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the optionsThe latest version of Mobian, an edition of Debian aimed at mobile devices, is here, based on Debian 13 “Trixie”.…

While XP-PEN does provide out-of-tree drivers for their drawing tablets on Linux including the XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro, the Linux 6.19 kernel is set to provide upstream support for the XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro…

Synaptics has unveiled the Astra SL2600, a family of multimodal processors designed for edge computing across consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT applications. The lineup debuts with the SL2610 product line, targeting low-power and high-performance designs used in smart home, automation, robotics, and retail systems. The Astra SL2600 family is built around the new Synaptics Torq […]

The Fedora Council has approved
an AI-assisted
contributions policy. This follows several
weeks of discussion, some of which were covered by LWN on
October 1. The final policy contains substantial differences from
the initial
proposal, and now requires disclosure of AI tools “when the
significant part of the contribution is taken from a tool without
changes“.

The EROFS read-only file-system continues enjoying nice uptick in use from embedded devices to containers. Merged today for Linux 6.18 is some new hardening to the EROFS driver where specially-crafted file-system images could lead to system crashes or infinite loops…

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects…

A new NTFSPlus driver has been proposed to replace NTFS3, aiming for faster, cleaner, and more stable NTFS support in Linux.

DebugFS is the kernel’s anything-goes, no-rules interface: whenever a kernel
developer needs quick access to internal details of the kernel to debug a
problem, or to implement an experimental control interface,
they can expose them via DebugFS. This is possible because DebugFS is not subject
to the normal rules for user-space-interface stability, nor to the rules about
exposing sensitive kernel information. Supporting DebugFS in Rust drivers is an
important step toward being able to debug real drivers on real hardware. Matthew
Maurer spoke at

Kangrejos 2025 about his recently merged

DebugFS bindings for Rust.

OpenBSD 7.8 has been
released. As usual, this release includes a long list of changes; see
the changelog for
all of the details.

Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 “znver4” CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out…

For those that happen to have the Dell G15 5530 laptop or considering this Intel Core i7 13650HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX high-end laptop, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is set to have AWCC platform profile support for this model as a nice enhancement. In turn this patch should also be back-ported to future stable Linux kernel point releases…

KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop is out now, adds automatic light-dark theme switching, rounded window corners, pinned clipboard items with permanent access, and more.

Discover the latest features of Gnoppix KDE 25.10, built on the Debian Trixie base. Explore enhanced performance and user-friendly tools for your desktop.

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In our previous articles, we’ve covered MySQL interview questions for beginners and intermediate users, and the response has been overwhelming. Today, we’re taking a different approach – focusing specifically on MySQL Database Interview Questions tailored for Linux users.

Now, some of you might be wondering why we’re separating Linux users from the rest. Well, the reason is simple. In most production environments, MySQL runs on Linux servers, and interviewers expect you to know more than just SQL queries.

They want to see if you understand how MySQL interacts with the Linux operating system, how to troubleshoot performance issues at the OS level, and how to manage databases through the command line.

We received several emails from our readers asking for questions that combine both MySQL and Linux knowledge. One reader specifically mentioned, “Your questions are good, but they don’t cover the system administration side of MySQL which is crucial for DBA roles.” Fair point. That’s exactly what we’re addressing today.

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Earlier this month Intel Linux software engineers began posting patches for enabling Xe3P kernel graphics driver support with initial usage by Nova Lake processors and later the expected Celestial discrete GPUs. That initial Xe3P iGPU support is going into Linux 6.19 but expect more feature additions and optimizations in follow-on kernel cycles in 2026. Similarly the patches have now begun coming out for enabling the display engine capabilities for “Xe3P_LPD” for actually being able to drive displays (monitors) with Xe3P on Nova Lake…