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Cough Cough Linux
Official Linux RSS about stable kernel releases: https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml
I don't think I've ever gotten bios updates via apt...not sure if that's a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.
No bios update, but you most likely received both microcode updates (which is what will fix/mitigate the Intel issue, the bios is only to ensure everybody gets the microcode update) and firmware updates (from
linux-firmware
)Of course non-mainlined (i.e. not in the linux kernel) firmware is a bit more iffy, luckily it's getting slowly better with OEMs using
fwupd
for those scenarios