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FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 shipped just a few days ago as what was expected to be the final release candidate before FreeBSD 15.0 stable is officially unveiled next week. But squeezing out today is FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 to address last minute issues...

Proton and Linux are 'vectors for cheat developers,' Rust dev Alistair McFarlane says  TweakTown

Linux GPU benchmarks impress in Windows gaming alternative Bazzite, but Nvidia is inconsistent  Notebookcheck

Those following Phoronix and the open-source AMD Linux kernel graphics driver know that the HDMI Forum has prevented AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 support in their open-source "AMDGPU" driver as due the driver implementation would run afoul to the organization's licensing requirements. It's been pointed out online this week that the AMD-Xilinx DRM driver though does have some HDMI 2.1 support albeit different hardware...

Windows 10 End Spurs Zorin OS Surge: Million Downloads from Ex-Users  WebProNews

Over the past two months I have been publishing a number of fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" flagship processor performance under Linux. All of those new Xeon 6900 series benchmarks on Phoronix have been from the Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 2U rack server that has proven to be a very robust and reliable server platform.

Announced last month was the NTFSPLUS driver as a new NTFS file-system driver for the Linux kernel with better write performance and more features compared to the existing NTFS options. A second iteration of that driver was recently queued into "ntfs-next" raising prospects that this NTFSPLUS driver could soon attempt to land in the mainline Linux kernel...

NTFSPLUS Driver Updated As It Works Toward The Mainline Kernel  Phoronix

I tried out Nitrux 5, so you don’t have to  XDA

This Linux distro is seeing record downloads as people flee Windows  How-To Geek

Black Friday Deals for Linux Users 2025 [Continually Updated With New Entries]  It's FOSS

While TUXEDO Computers recently ended their efforts for a Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop, their Linux Intel/AMD laptop efforts continue going well and recently they have been posting patches working to enhance the upstream kernel support for those x86_64 devices...

Improved Upstream Kernel Support For TUXEDO Laptops Being Worked On  Phoronix

Following approval of the /nix top-level directory with Fedora Linux, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has additionally signed off on allowing the Nix package tool to appear in the Fedora 44 repository...

Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software  Blocks and Files

The Laptop That Wasn't: TUXEDO Computers Shelves Linux ARM Notebook Plans  It's FOSS

The best Linux-based SMB office suites: Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds, software engineer: “Using AI for this could be a terrible idea”  Diario AS

Life’s not bad on Bazzite.  The Verge

A Huawei engineer sent out a proposed driver for the Linux kernel to enable "cache lockdwon" behavior for HiSilicon ARM64 processors for greater control over the processor's L3 cache usage...