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Top 5 Linux Programs for Students in 2025

Tecmint - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 16:05
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Linux is an open-source operating system whose use is increasing these days as a result of its stability, security, flexibility,

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FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 5 Brings Release Build Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 08:18
FreeBSD 15.0 continues working its way toward a stable release in early December and out today is the fifth alpha release...

Linux 6.18 FUSE Brings Enhancements For File-System In User-Space

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 07:59
Adding to the Linux storage/file-system excitement for Linux 6.18 is enhancements to some of the core FUSE code for supporting file-systems in user-space...

AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA Driver Added To Linux 6.18, Intel IPU E2000 Hardware Too

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 00:48
The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago. That AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA driver is now part of the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel...

Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements

Phoronix - Sun, 10/05/2025 - 21:34
The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too...

Improved Diagnostics For GCC 16 - Including Support For Outputting To HTML

Phoronix - Sun, 10/05/2025 - 18:39
Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optionally outputting compiler error/warning diagnostics to HTML format for better analysis...

Haptic Touchpad Support Makes It Into Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Sun, 10/05/2025 - 18:17
The HID changes have been merged for Linux 6.18 and are headlined by initial support in the mainline kernel for haptic touchpad handling...

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