Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates
…13 Comments Oracle announced today they are going to be reducing the frequency of software updates for Solaris 11.4 and their ZFS Storage Appliance software. Currently Oracle ships a new SRU…
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Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements
Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in Proprietary Software on 13 May 2026 at 06:17 AM EDT. 15 Comments Discord, the popular…
The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages
…5 Comments The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large…
GhostBSD 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server
…This new GhostBSD release also switches to Zsh as its default shell, Enterprise WPA and WireGuard support is added to NetworkMGR, Software Station updates, and a refresh to the theme / icons / default…
Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
…The rest is pretty random and spread out - some architecture fixes (mostly kvm-related), various random driver fixes, some filesystem work, and a few build fixes for strange configs. I don't…
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
…14 Comments KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series. This Week…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0
…Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps…
Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed
…Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that…
Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition
…The stubbed out implementation from a few months ago was enough to get the Dorico music notation / scorewriter software working on Wine. But simply stubbing out the implementation wasn't enough to…
GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files
…non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom. The…