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FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - 3 hours 42 min ago
FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...

There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source

Phoronix - 5 hours 4 min ago
Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...

NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features

Phoronix - 7 hours 39 min ago
Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2

Phoronix - 9 hours 31 min ago
With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2026 - 23:45
Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...

Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries

Phoronix - Mon, 03/09/2026 - 23:10
Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...

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