Did you remember that Project Moohan was showcased back in January 2025's Galaxy Unpacked event when the Galaxy S25 was unveiled, especially those who attended the event in real life? Now, the wait for the Android XR experience is over as Samsung finally announced the Galaxy XR, which is the first Android XR device that is released. Opening new worlds and taking things to the next level while breaking the boundaries is what Galaxy XR does by introducing you to an Android XR experience that is enhanced by multimodal AI capabilities with Gemini embedded in it.

KDE Plasma has been upgraded to version 6.5 to provide you with big improvements for your desktop experience on your Linux installation. It has been officially announced in the KDE website that stated that KDE was "on the verge of making it big for the general public" and that it has reached the inflection point. This upgrade turns your awesome desktop to a more fantastic desktop that adds new features while incorporating many improvements.

Since the start of FreeBSD 15.0 alpha, we've decided to handle the release of future testing builds, along with some of the FreeBSD news, such as end of life, updates, and other newsworthy details. Today, we're excited to tell you that the FreeBSD testing plans are in our internal backlog. FreeBSD is an open-source Unix-like operating system that is the most popular BSD-based software distribution.

Samsung has started rolling out a new software update to the Galaxy Watch4 series, starting from Korea, which updates your watch's security patch to August 2025 and improves some of the features in One UI 6 Watch. This is done prior to One UI 8 Watch. The flagship watches will be updated to the following versions: Galaxy Watch4 40mm (BT, SM-R860)

Linux 6.18 RC2 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate. The official announcement from the kernel mailing list says: No huge surprises here. We had a number of regressions in rc1 reported by Guenter's automated test system, so it's not like this release has been all smooth sailing, but at least _some_ of them turned out to be trivial configuration issues, or in the case of big-endian SH4 they seem to have been "just" bugs in the qemu test environment, not actually new kernel bugs.

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December...

The second beta version of FreeBSD 15.0, BETA2, is now live and available for download to the public for those who like testing pre-release operating systems. This version of FreeBSD aims to be more welcoming to new users and to maintain the reproducible builds, alongside many improvements to come. The ISO images can now be downloaded using the below button. It will take you to the file list that lets you select what kind of image you want to download, in terms of architecture, install source, and image type.

Every week, new Linux versions that are under a supported version series get released to incorporate bug fixes and other general improvements that are pushed to the servicing branches. This ensures that your Linux user experience gets better when latest versions fix some of the bugs. This week, the below Linux kernel versions are released:

Samsung has already pushed the Galaxy Tab S9 update this week that updates the tablet to One UI 8 based on Android 16 released this year. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Tab S8 is yet to receive the update, because the Brazilian timeline clearly said that from October 16th, the tablet was planned to receive the update. One UI 8 will make it to the Galaxy Tab S8 series in the coming weeks, and the earliest possible date (best case) is the week of October 23rd, since the update wasn't pushed in the week of October 16th.

The KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop will be released next week, because it already has reached the end of development stage with a lot of bug fixes and general improvements, in addition to performance boosts and feature additions, to enhance your desktop experience with added performance to make your PC snappier than before. KDE celebrates its 29th birthday event by releasing the KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop on the 21st of October to the general public.

Samsung has started rolling out a new software update to the Galaxy Watch5 series, starting from Korea, which updates your watch's security patch to August 2025 and improves some of the features in One UI 6 Watch. The flagship watches will be updated to the following versions: Galaxy Watch5 40mm (BT, SM-R900): CYJ1 [KOO] Galaxy Watch5 44mm (BT, SM-R910)

We are excited to announce that starting from today, users can now download the One UI 8 update to their Galaxy Tab S9 tablets globally as Samsung has finally released this exciting version of One UI. Your Galaxy has now become more powerful as One UI 8 brings more powerful features. The firmware information states: Galaxy Tab S9: DYJ1…

Samsung has released the Galaxy S25 Edge on May 2025 after unveiling it back on January. This was built primarily for slimness of the device, but the expectations fell short. The actual sales for the Galaxy S25 Edge went less than expected, because it's overpriced for less battery capacity. Additionally, Samsung has only produced 190,000 units of the Galaxy S25 Edge.

We are excited to announce that starting from today, users can now download the One UI 8 update to their Galaxy S22 smartphones in Europe and in India as Samsung has finally released this exciting version of One UI. This happened after a brief rollout pause. Your Galaxy has now become more powerful as One UI 8 brings more powerful features.

The release schedule for the Resolute Raccoon is now known to us as Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka got released last week. The Ubuntu team is now working on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon as development has just started. As we have mentioned earlier, the repositories have been initialized for the next LTS after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat, and the daily builds will use those repositories to help shape the future of Ubuntu.

Canonical has released the brand new Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka version, which brings a lot of improvements thanks to the updated packages. A new version of Ubuntu, called 26.04 Resolute Raccoon, has started its development a week after the abovementioned Ubuntu version was released. This version is reported to have GNOME 50 desktop and a future version of Linux. The release schedule is known, and can be accessed…

Microsoft have recently released this month's Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 computers and laptops, and they usually contain new features that the normal patches will include. These new features, along with many improvements and bug fixes, will enhance your user experience by making some of the features easier to use. The official changelogs for this month's patch is:  Fixed: This update addresses an issue that caused the print preview screen to stop responding in Chromium-based browsers.

Today is October 14th, 2025, which is the day that Microsoft ends complete support for the below four major products: Office 2016 Office 2019 Visual Studio 2015 Windows 10 Office 2016 and 2019 brought many changes to the office suite that made productivity easier, including improvements across several areas of the office suite, including the three most famous apps from the suite: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, alongside all the other bundled office applications like OneNote and Visio.

When Terminaux 8.0 was released, we've given it five years of support to ensure long-term support for enterprise environments that may utilize this library for their applications. This version of Terminaux didn't add many features, but brought some improvements to different areas of the library. The release support window is given to each major version series as below: Major versions of Terminaux that are even-numbered, such as v8.x and v10.x, will be supported for five years, and adds less features for more fixes and improvements.

Linux Mint has released a new version of Linux Mint Debian Edition, called "Gigi", that is an upgrade over the previous version, "Faye". This version is a long-term support release, which means that you'll get package updates for a very long time. This version of LMDE is based on the latest version of Debian, which is Debian 13 Trixie.

After the release of the fifth One UI 8 Watch Beta for the Watch7, Samsung was putting their final touches on the stable release for this smartwatch series. Today, Samsung has released One UI 8 Watch for the Galaxy Watch7 LTE series, starting from the USA, which means that regular users can now download the stable version of One UI 8 Watch.

Earlier, Samsung has pushed the One UI 8 update to the Galaxy S22 in Europe and in India last week as build GYI7 and GYIF, respectively, on October 6th. Now, the company has removed the update from the official OTA servers and reverted it to FYI2 and FYI3, which are the last security update builds for One UI 7. According to a reliable tipster, …

As we have just released Terminaux 8.0, we have decided to finalize the support period for this version of the library. We have made this decision as Nitrocid 0.2.0 becomes under development, which is also planned to be a long-term support release that will be for ten years. This is necessary to ensure that we maintain high security standards during the long lifecycle.

After the release of the most exciting Terminaux 7.0, we are continuing the journey of performance and productivity by releasing Terminaux 8.0 to build on top of the preceding version. We have done further refinements in this version to upgrade your terminal applications to a whole new level. With new features being in place, we have taken a step further and introduced some more features that are taken from Nitrocid, such as audio cues for each keypress.

Samsung has re-evaluated the supported devices list as of this month after Chuseok 2025 as of today, and you can see the updated list in full here. We have run a comparison of supported models, and the results are now in: The following devices have been added to the list: Quarterly security patches Galaxy A17 Galaxy A17 5G Galaxy F07…