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      ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For "Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash" Test Bed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to FreeBSD proper...
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      Linux 6.19-rc6 Bringing Sound Fixes For ROG Xbox Ally X & Various Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    With the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today there will be a number of sound fixes/workarounds to note from the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to several newer laptops seeing fixes for their audio support...
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      Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...
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      Important AMDGPU & AMDKFD Driver Improvements Readied For Linux 6.20~7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    On Friday AMD sent out another set of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle kicking off in February...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Aims To Have KDE Desktop Installer Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...
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      CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...
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      KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will be the Plasma 6.7 desktop...
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      Shotcut 26.1 Beta Video Editor Adds New Hardware Decoder Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    The Shotcut 26.1 beta was released overnight as the newest version of this Qt6-based, cross-platform video editing solution. Standing out the most with this new development release are some new GPU-accelerated hardware decode options for aiming to help speed-up this free software video editor...
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      GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...