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TrueNAS 25.04 "Fangtooth" Beta Unifies Linux SCALE & FreeBSD CORE Efforts  Phoronix

TrueNAS 25.04 beta was released on Thursday as another step toward unifying the TrueNAS CORE OS derived from FreeBSD and the Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE...

The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed...

Lilbits: New Apple hardware, Asahi Linux shakeup, Android 16 Beta 2, and Amazon makes backing up Kindle eBooks tougher  Liliputing

After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Torvalds' leadership  The Register

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces Kubernetes LTS  WebProNews

The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhance this code editor with AI capabilities...

Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model  Phoronix

The best Raspberry Pi alternatives of 2025: Expert recommended  ZDNet

Asahi Linux Gets a Reboot, Still Working On M3 & M4 Mac Support  How-To Geek

The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch...

Why you should quit MacOS and Windows | by Chris Langley | Feb, 2025  Medium

Increased Linux kernel timer frequency delivers big boost in AI workloads  Tom's Hardware

Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux...

Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users...

Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads  Phoronix

For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...

Student turns PDF into functional Linux emulator  dev.ua

Bluestar Linux 6.13.2 sports a new kernel, Firefox 135, Libreoffice 25.2, and more  Notebookcheck.net

How to use the lsblk command  Network World