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FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released  Phoronix

Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

Finnix 251 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Introduces Official OCI Container Images  9to5Linux

Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...

AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Is Out as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7  9to5Linux

Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact  The New Stack

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, load balancers, Amazon DCV, Amazon Linux 2023, and more (November 17, 2025)  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements  GamingOnLinux

Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux  How-To Geek

Penguin Solutions Boosts Fault-Tolerant Computing with Oracle Linux Integration  Insider Monkey

SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software...

SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language  Phoronix

NetworkManager 1.54.2 Adds Support for Configuring the HSR Protocol Version  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.6.15 Re-Adds Support for Explicitly Configuring the Broadcast Address  9to5Linux

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support  Phoronix

Linux Mint vs. Zorin OS: How to pick between these Windows alternatives  ZDNET

Last month when the LLVM/Clang 22 compiler merged support for Intel Nova Lake with the "-march=novalake" target there was no mentions of AVX10 or Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support. But last week Intel published a new programming reference manual where they confirmed AVX 10.2 and APX for Nova Lake. Now that it's official, Intel compiler engineers are updating the LLVM/Clang (and GCC) compiler support to reflect these ISA additions...