HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adoboe Photoshop and…

HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements - Phoronix

HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux - Phoronix

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser.

Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape" The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...

Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape" - Phoronix

The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now available for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise th...

Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with hardware ray-tracing, the emulated ray-tracing code path in RADV for primarily older GPUs has seen some improvements merged this weekend. In fact, so significant that from one merge request is around 40% faster performance fo…

Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX - Phoronix

In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with har...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9 The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9 - Phoronix

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one mont...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17 For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more A...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been 'years in the wanting' and that is rounded bottom corners for windows.

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being b…

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware - Phoronix

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind t...

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux - Phoronix

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution

Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one feature that wasn't ready for merging in this quarter's release is Magma, which is a recent effort by Google engineers working on a cross-platform system call interface for Mesa. And it's written in Rust...

Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface - Phoronix

Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one fea...