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FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 3 is now available in providing the latest test release for this forthcoming update to the FreeBSD 13 stable series...

FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 3 Brings Support For More 4G Modems, Linux ...  Phoronix

Linux Lite 6.4 to Adopt Zstd Compression for Its Apps for Lightning Fast Updates  9to5Linux

If you didn't like Linux and you go back to Windows, you should keep ...  Gearrice

8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or ...  ZDNet

How Puppy Linux Saved the Day for a Windows User  LinuxInsider.com

Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak - Slashdot  Slashdot

How to Quickly Change Default Apps on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install Ruby on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The RISC-V architecture updates were merged this Saturday for the Linux 6.3 merge window...

RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension  Phoronix

TUXEDO OS 2 Launches with KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS  9to5Linux

SSDFS Is The Newest Linux Filesystem & Catering To NVMe ZNS SSDs  Phoronix

Sent out for review on Friday evening were 76 patches implementing SSDFS, the newest open-source Linux file-system and catering to flash-friendly drives and particularly those with NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) support...

For modern Intel platforms supporting Coreboot whether it be for Chromebooks or on server platforms, they are still beholden to the Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) binary blobs. But Google and Intel engineers have been working to enable more flexibility around the FSP binaries by being able to optionally reduce the amount of proprietary firmware executed on the CPU, optionally weeding out some of the optional FSP components, and optimizing the status quo to achieve greater boot speeds...

For those with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT or RX 7900 XTX graphics card, the latest Mesa 23.1-devel code as of Friday has seen a number of fixes land for benefiting the GFX11/RDNA3 graphics processors...

Many Radeon RX 7000 Series "RDNA3" Fixes Land In Mesa 23.1  Phoronix

While last week brought the Plasma 5.27 release as the last feature update to the Plasma 5 series, KDE developers haven't letup in their development efforts with this week continuing to be quite busy for the developers from bug fixing to new features...

Along with all of the Arm SoC and board updates that were merged to the mainline Linux 6.3 kernel earlier in the week, the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture changes have also landed for this next Linux kernel version...

Linux 6.3 ARM64 Changes Land With SME 2 & SME 2.1 Support  Phoronix