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Microsoft is preparing to ship Windows 11 25H2 as their newest incremental update to their operating system. Windows 11 25H2 is currently available via their preview channel in advance of the formal public release in October. With Canonical also putting the finishing touches on their Ubuntu 25.10 release also due for a stable release in October, here are some benchmarks looking at how those competing operating systems are fairing in various CPU benchmarks on the same hardware.

While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.Org Server by default, the modern KDE Plasma 6 desktop can in fact work fine on Wayland under FreeBSD 14 and the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0 release...

Thanks to work by open-source Intel software engineers over the past few months, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to add support for Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" for supporting next-generation, higher-resolution laptop web cameras...

The XFS file-system is ready to declare their online file-system checking "fsck" support in good enough shape for enabling by default in new kernel builds. Plus other XFS alterations ahead of Linux 6.18 that is expected to be this year's LTS kernel version...

A patch series that has been in development for a while now introduces the concept of "sheaves" for an opt-in, per-CPU and array-based caching layer for the SLUB kernel allocator. It looks like the sheaves patches are likely to be introduced for the Linux 6.18 kernel if no objections are raised...

A new AMD driver set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle barring any last minute problems is a TRNG driver for Versal SoCs...