October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. And major virtualisation updates in the form of VirtualBox 7.2.3, Parallels Desktop 26 and VMWare Workstation 25H2. But, as regular readers (you rock) will know, each month I round up a slew of smaller Linux app updates which didn’t receive the ‘full post’ treatment on this site, yet are still worth knowing about. As ever, if you spot an update I’ve missed (or am yet to […]

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Ubuntu 25.10 now offers amd64v3 optimised packages. What does x86-64-v3 mean for your CPU, and will the modest performance improvements be noticeable?

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