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FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices


The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025

There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system. - FreeBSD Ports has landed KDE Plasma 6.3, Qt 6.8.3, Rust 1.85.1, Wine 10.0, and many other package updates. - The framework-kmod kernel module continues to be worked on for allowing dynamically dimming of the screen when the computer is not in use and to restore display brightness on user return, based on evdev input driver activity.

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