FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 is now officially available with installation images for amd64, i386, aarch64, armv6 and more. This release contains mostly bug fixes. If you are looking for a new laptop with Linux support out-of-box, the Lenovo ThinkPad P series will have Ubuntu 18.04 pre-installed. They will go on sale later this month in the US.

Yesterday, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu announced the availability of Manifold 2, a high-performance embedded computer offered by leading enterprise drone manufacturer, DJI. This availability will allow developers access to containerized software packages (e.g. Snaps), allowing for infinite evolution and functionality changes.

Atari has officially opened up pre-orders to the VCS retro gaming console for $250. New orders are expected to be fulfilled by March 2020.

News briefs for June 12, 2019. Endless OS 3.6.0 has been released. This release has "updated the base OS packages to the latest versions from Debian 'buster' (the forthcoming stable release), most desktop components to the versions from GNOME 3.32, and Linux kernel 5.0." It also includes many new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. Go here to download.

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News briefs for June 5, 2019. Chrome 75 was released yesterday. ZDNet reports that "The vast majority of the new features and changes in Chrome 75 are centered around adding new internal APIs and updating existing features." The big new feature is "the addition of a hidden Reader Mode, similar to the one included with Firefox". See the changelog for more details.

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News briefs for May 31, 2019. Debian announces it has chosen seven interns—two people for Outreachy and five people for the Summer of Code. See the post for the list of interns and the projects they'll be working on.

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News briefs for May 28, 2019. Kernel 5.2-rc2 was released over the weekend. Linus Torvalds writes: "Hey, what's to say? Fairly normal rc2, no real highlights - I think most of the diff is the SPDX updates. Who am I kidding? The highlight of the week was clearly Finland winning the ice hockey world championships. So once you sober up from the celebration, go test".

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