The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux.

Artificial intelligence has helped uncover one of the most significant Linux kernel security flaws in recent years. Security researchers at Nebula Security announced the discovery of GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability that remained hidden in the Linux kernel for approximately 15 years before being identified by the company's AI-powered vulnerability research platform, VEGA.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox Desktop and Android every two weeks in an experiment beginning with Firefox 155 on September 1.

Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...

Clintech has launched a Crowd Supply campaign for the Clintech Pico Board, an open-hardware microcontroller board based on Raspberry Pi’s RP2354B. The board retains the 51 × 21mm Raspberry Pi Pico footprint while exposing all 48 GPIOs available from the larger RP2354B package. The RP2354B combines dual 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores with dual Hazard3 RISC-V […]

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...

This week's Distro of the Week is a first on two levels: First, it's the first Greek distro we've ever reviewed in our short lifetime, but way more importantly, we finally - FINALLY! - got a Slackware-based Linux distro to run. And run it did - boy, did it ever.

Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.

Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 mow has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...

COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces its long-awaited frosted glass appearance, improved GPU monitoring, AVIF wallpapers, and numerous fixes.

Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...

Blender 5.2 LTS introduces experimental cloth and hair physics in Geometry Nodes, remotely hosted asset libraries, and major rendering improvements.

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...

System76’s refreshed Adder Pro trims weight, adds Panther Lake silicon and RTX 50?series GPUs, and ships with Pop!_OS or Ubuntu for Linux?first power users.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.3 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

IncidentRelay is a new self-hosted platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalations, and incident response.

Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...