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Jolla’s Community Linux Phone Surpasses Its Funding Goal

OnDecember 9, 2025
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Over 3,200 backers secure the future of Jolla’s upcoming Linux phone, pushing the project beyond its initial funding milestone.

Bcachefs 1.33 Delivers Its Biggest Upgrade Yet With Full Reconcile Support

OnDecember 8, 2025

Bcachefs 1.33 Linux filesystem introduces a new reconcile engine that unifies data and metadata handling while simplifying replication and recovery tasks.

Manjaro 25.1 Preview Released, but Users Are Urged Not to Update Yet

OnDecember 8, 2025
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Manjaro 25.1 "Anh-Linh" preview ships major upgrades, but users are warned to wait due to several breaking changes requiring manual intervention.

Firefox 146 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

OnDecember 8, 2025

Firefox 146 lands with smoother visuals on Linux Wayland thanks to new fractional scaling support and important graphics updates across platforms.

Ventoy 1.1.08 Adds Support for FreeBSD 15.0

OnDecember 8, 2025

Ventoy 1.1.08, an open-source tool for creating a bootable USB drive to load multiple ISO files, now supports FreeBSD 15.0.

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 49 (Dec 1 – 7, 2025)

OnDecember 7, 2025

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 6.18, Alpine 3.23, NVIDIA Display Driver v590 Beta, VLC 3.0.22, When Linus met Linus, Linux Mint 22.3 nears release, Jolla Linux phone, and more.