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FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 4 is out today as the newest weekly test release in working toward the FreeBSD 15 stable release in early December...

Linux 6.18 Kernel Patches Fix Systemd-VFS Lockups for Enterprise Stability  WebProNews

When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland...

Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland  Phoronix

5 Linux Distros That Play Nice With Brand-New Hardware  How-To Geek

I set up a remote Linux VM on Proxmox I can use from Windows, and it's almost as good as native  XDA

This tool helped me create a USB image with everything I need for the perfect Linux setup  XDA

5 Ways to Download Files via the Linux Terminal (That Aren't curl or wget)  How-To Geek

Why This Distro Is More Popular Than Ubuntu and Linux Mint Right Now  How-To Geek

Thirteen years after the AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs initially launched as the Radeon HD 7000 series, recently there has been an effort to improve the support for both GCN 1.0 and the GCN 1.1 graphics processors with their open-source Linux driver stack. This recent effort has been led by one of the developers on Valve's Linux graphics team...

Linux Driver Developer At Valve Preps More Patches For Improving AMD GCN 1.0 GPUs  Phoronix

7 Ways to Use SSH to Turbocharge Remote Server Connections  How-To Geek

Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files  Phoronix

Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel. These changes for the Linux 6.18 kernel include one pull request that touches the writeback code to address a situation of lockups being reported by users when systemd units read lots of files...

Among the early pull requests submitted already to Linus Torvalds in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening soon is the Btrfs file-system updates. Btrfs for Linux 6.18 has a few items worth calling out but no major features this cycle...

The sched_ext scheduler framework that allows creating kernel thread schedulers via BPF programs is ready with some updates for the Linux 6.18 kernel...

Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.5 beta release, the focus has shifted to bug fixing ahead of the October release of Plasma 6.5.0. There have been some minor features to still squeeze in, a lot of bug fixing has commenced, and also some early feature work around Plasma 6.6...

Following last week's GNOME 49 release, This Week in GNOME is out with their latest weekly summary of all interesting GNOME developments. Notable now for this post-49.0 time is libadwaita adding an adaptive sidebar widget...

Linux Apps on Android Are One Step Closer to Reality  How-To Geek

5 tools that make my Mac feel more like Linux  XDA