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As we have been covering over the past year, major investments have been made to better the outlook for running FreeBSD on laptop hardware. From WiFi driver improvements to enhancing suspend/resume, power management, graphics drivers, and other features, it's been a big undertaking to make FreeBSD work better on laptops. The FreeBSD Foundation calls 2025 as having brought "transformative changes" for the FreeBSD laptop experience...
Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April...
Cloud Hypervisor 50.0 is out today for this cloud-minded, security-focused and Rust-based hypervisor. Cloud Hypervsior began as an open-source Intel project while in more recent times has shifted to being largely maintained by Microsoft, Crusoe, Cyberus Tech, Rivos, and others...
The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux...
Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats...
Kdenlive has issued an end-of-year update, and it brings configurable layouts and a smarter way to handle vertical video projects. Kdenlive 25.12.0 introduces a new docking system, which the editor’s developers describe as ‘more flexible’. You can group widgets you want together and quickly show or hide them. Layout can be saved as a file (making them shareable) as well as part of the project file itself. The latter change could prove incredibly handy for those working on different kinds of edits, as it means any customised/re-arrange layout is restored whenever the project is reopened. “The downside”, Kdenlive devs note, […]
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.
Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.
The Armbian team has launched a new official imager that simplifies flashing Armbian OS on single-board computers across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Mozilla is working on an AI kill switch for the Firefox open-source web browser to let users completely disable all AI features.
OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...
Kdenlive 25.12 open-source video editor introduces a new docking system, redesigned menus, improved markers, audio monitor updates, and more.
OpenZFS 2.4 file system and volume manager is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and several new features. Here’s what’s new!
NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics driver is now available for download for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various bug fixes. Here's what's changed!
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