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FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series...

The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts...

In addition to this week's release of Plasma 6.3.1, KDE developers have been busy preparing more bug fixes for what will become Plasma 6.3.2 next month. Additionally, more feature code for Plasma 6.4 continues to bake...

How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04  info-mods.com

Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements  Phoronix

Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. Jean Baptiste Lallement has a decade and a half history at Canonical working on Ubuntu QA, Ubuntu Phone / Unity, and other projects while now he is leading the charge on further enhancing the Ubuntu desktop initiatives. As somewhat of a mid-point for the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle, he published a Discourse post on Friday to outline some of the recent and ongoing improvements for the Ubuntu desktop...

Is Linux Ready For Mainstream Gaming In 2025?  It's FOSS News

Do not leave Windows for Linux -- try dual boot or a VM instead  BetaNews

Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API  Phoronix

Anticipated for the April release of the Mozilla Firefox 137 web browser is finally supporting HEVC (H.265) video playback in an accelerated manner using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API)...

Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 one month ago, Wine 10.2 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release that will culminate with the Wine 11.0 stable release in early 2026...

How to Install Spotify on Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

How to use exit codes  Network World

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase  Ars Technica

System76 engineers remain quite busy working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to be used by their Pop!_OS operating system as well as other Linux distributions moving forward...

SandboxAQ, MITRE, Linux Foundation announce RWPQC 2025 to address quantum threats  IndustrialCyber

Rust for Linux: Safety gains vs maintainability fears  Developer News

FineIBT is a Linux kernel initiative led by Intel engineers that aimed to combine the best of Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity. FineIBT was merged in 2022 for the Linux 6.2 kernel as an alternative control flow integrity implementation. Some FineIBT weaknesses were previously addressed but now the implementation has been determined to be "critically flawed" at least until next-generation Intel processors appear with FRED...

Linux's FineIBT Protections "Critically Flawed" Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED  Phoronix

Hands-on: Ueli is a launcher you can use on Windows, macOS, and Linux — and it's pretty good  XDA Developers