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| 2025-12-22 |
FreeBSD Foundation reports progress in quest to better support laptops |
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The FreeBSD Foundation announced at the end of 2024 that the organization would be sponsoring and coordinating work on FreeBSD to make the operating system work better on desktop and laptop computers. How has the work been progressing? The Foundation has reported positive success across a variety of tasks, including wireless networking support, suspend/resume, and graphics drivers: "In 2025 we added support for W-iFi 4 and 5 on key hardware and made a start on Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 4 and 5 drivers for Intel and Realtek are available in 15.0, with support for additional Realtek and Mediatek drivers in progress. Thanks to Bjoern Zeeb and Tom Jones for their work on this. Graphics drivers have been upgraded to Linux 6.9, which is available in 15.0 (note: to use this driver you need to adopt the drm-latest-kmod port as it’s a non-LTS version). Linux 6.10 is in progress, and this is the minimum version required for the latest Framework laptop (16″ AMD Ryzen AI 300 series). Thanks to Jean-Sébastien Pédron for all the hard work." Additional information on improved laptop support can be found in the Foundation's blog post.
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