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📰 CHUWI's $449 USD Wildcat Lake Laptop Should Work Fine With Linux CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix... 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/CHUWI-449-Notebook

Exchange Hybrid after EWS retirement: Upgrade to Exchange SE and move to Microsoft Graph Microsoft is shutting down Exchange Web Services (EWS) — the nearly 20-year-old API that Exchange uses for hybrid coexistence — in Exchange Online in two phases: a soft block on October 1, 2026, and a permanent hard shutdown on April 1, 2027. If you run Exchange in hybrid mode, meaning some mailboxes are on-premises and some are in Microsoft 365, this requires a two-step migration. The first step should already be complete; the second step must be finished before October 2026 and requires Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE). Microsoft has confirmed there will be no exceptions past April 2027. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/exchange-hybrid-after-ews-retirement-upgrade-to-exchange-se-and-move-to-microsoft-graph/

📰 Vivaldi 8.0 is out with a dramatic new look and UI layouts A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. Vivaldi 8.0 sees the browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, and content) drop their boundaries to form a continuous look. Hence the named Unified. “Unified is not a visual refresh. 🔗 Source: #chromium 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/vivaldi-8-0-released-redesigned

📰 openSUSE Releases Agama 21 Installer with Better Network Management openSUSE releases Agama 21 installer for Tumbleweed and Slowroll with systemd-boot support, better network management, as well as numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-releases-agama-21-installer-with-better-network-management #opensuse #systemd 👉@sysadminoff

📰 Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware A Chinese cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers with newly discovered Linux and Windows malware dubbed Showboat and JFMBackdoor, respectively. 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-linux-windows-malware/

📰 Firefox Is Getting a New Look Later This Year Mozilla has announced Project Nova, a forthcoming Firefox redesign that emphasizes speed, privacy, AI controls, and a streamlined desktop interface. 🔗 Source: #firefox 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/firefox-is-getting-a-new-look-later-this-year/

Free Windows Server 2025 hotpatching with Azure Arc Microsoft now offers Windows Server 2025 hotpatching through Azure Arc at no additional charge for eligible Azure Arc-enabled servers. Hotpatching installs Windows security updates without restarting the server in most months, but it does not eliminate all reboots. You still need Azure Arc, the Azure Connected Machine agent, Virtualization-based Security, and a supported Windows Server 2025 edition. This article explains what those requirements mean, how to enable the feature, and where its limits are. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/free-windows-server-2025-hotpatching-with-azure-arc/

Представлен обновлённый интерфейс Firefox Компания Mozilla официально представила результаты работы по модернизации оформления интерфейса Firefox, выполненной в рамках проекта Nova. Новый дизайн примечателен значительным скруглением кнопок вкладок и поля адресной строки, а также объединением в отдельно выделенные блоки верхней области с панелью вкладок и панелью навигации, боковой панели, области с содержимым web-страниц и элементов страницы, показываемой при открытии новой вкладки. Разные блоки выделены своими цветовыми оттенками с градиентом. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65496

Релиз OpenBSD 7.9 Представлен выпуск свободной UNIX-подобной операционной системы OpenBSD 7.9. Проект OpenBSD был основан Тэо де Раадтом (Theo de Raadt) в 1995 году после конфликта с разработчиками NetBSD, в результате которого для Тэо был закрыт доступ к CVS репозиторию NetBSD. После этого Тэо де Раадт с группой единомышленников создал на базе дерева исходных текстов NetBSD новую открытую операционную систему, главными целями развития которой стали переносимость (поддерживается 13 аппаратных платформ), стандартизация, корректная работа, проактивная безопасность и интегрированные криптографические средства. Размер полного установочного ISO-образа базовой системы OpenBSD 7.9 составляет 597 МБ. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65495

📰 KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT... 🔗 Source: #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0-Released

📰 Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2 AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux... 🔗 Source: #amd #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-Expandable-Heap

Vivaldi 8.0 is out with a dramatic new look and UI layouts A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. Vivaldi 8.0 sees the browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, and content) drop their boundaries to form a continuous look. Hence the named Unified. “Unified is not a visual refresh. It is a rethinking of how the Vivaldi interface works as a system” the company says in its press release (a suspiciously AI-sounding parallelism that falls apart when your brain moves past ‘that sounds impressive’ since er, it is actually a visual […] You're reading Vivaldi 8.0 is out with a dramatic new look and UI layouts, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/vivaldi-8-0-released-redesigned

📰 I spent weeks chasing a DisplayPort problem that HDMI solved in seconds DisplayPort has largely been the primary cable PC enthusiasts reach for, and for good reason. It has better bandwidth than the HDMI of its era, native VRR before HDMI caught up, and there's no royalty funny business or weird treatment of Linux drivers. When I upgraded from my 1440p IPS display to a 4K OLED, I reached for DisplayPort once more. I plugged it in, set my refresh rate on the "Gaming Mode" of my Samsung Odyssey G8 to 240Hz, and... 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.xda-developers.com/i-spent-weeks-chasing-a-displayport-problem-that-hdmi-solved-in-seconds/

📰 VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)... 🔗 Source: #proton #steam #wine 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-2.0-Released

Выпуск браузера Vivaldi 8.0 Состоялся релиз проприетарного браузера Vivaldi 8.0, разрабатываемого на базе движка Chromium бывшими разработчиками движка Opera Presto. Сборки Vivaldi подготовлены для Linux, Windows и macOS. Изменения, вносимые в кодовую базу Chromium, проект распространяет под открытой лицензией. Интерфейс браузера написан на языке JavaScript с использованием библиотеки React, платформы Node.js, Browserify и различных готовых NPM-модулей. Реализация интерфейса доступна в исходных текстах, но под проприетарной лицензией. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65490

📰 Collabora + Flipper: Opening up the RK3576 Collabora is proud to share that we've partnered with Flipper Devices to work together on building an open Linux platform for hardware hackers. The long-awaited Flipper One will be built on the Rockchip RK3576! 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/collabora-flipper-opening-up-the-rk3576.html

📰 AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases... 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Media-Entertainment

📰 New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more... 🔗 Source: #arm #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-9-Linux

Релиз дистрибутива Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 Компания Red Hat представила релиз дистрибутива Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2, а также обновление прошлой ветки - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8. Готовые установочные образы доступны для зарегистрированных пользователей Red Hat Customer Portal (для оценки функциональности можно использовать общедоступные iso-образы CentOS Stream 10, а также бесплатные сборки RHEL для разработчиков). Выпуск сформирован для архитектур x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le (POWER9), Aarch64 (ARM64) и RISC-V (preview). Обновления для выпуска RHEL 10.2 будут формироваться до мая 2032 года. Ветка RHEL 10 будет сопровождаться до 2035 года (+ 4 года расширенной платной поддержки), RHEL 9 - до конца мая 2032 года, а RHEL 8 - до 2029 года. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65489

📰 chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success... 🔗 Source: #amd #intel #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/chipStar-1.3-Released