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FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work (www.phoronix.com)
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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.

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FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System (www.phoronix.com)
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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.

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FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/freebsd@sopuli.xyz
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FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...