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Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API
The Rust-written Servo browser web layout engine project is out with its October 2024 status update that provides insight to their development activities the past several weeks...
2024-11-11 06:22
PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer
PHPStan 2.0 is out today as what is the best open-source static analyzer for the PHP programming language...
2024-11-11 06:10
Auto Accent Colour GNOME Shell Extension
For a pinch more personalisation of Ubuntu 24.10 check out Auto Accent Colour, a new GNOME Shell extension that changes the system accent colour based on your current desktop wallpaper. Accent colours are a headline feature in GNOME 47, although not ne...
2024-11-10 23:41
Auto-Match Ubuntu’s Accent Colour to Your Wallpaper
For a pinch more personalisation of Ubuntu 24.10 check out Auto Accent Colour, a new GNOME Shell extension that changes the system accent colour based on your current desktop wallpaper. Accent colours are a headline feature in GNOME 47, although not ne...
2024-11-10 23:41
CachyOS ISO Release for November Improves Support for AMD and NVIDIA Users
CachyOS ISO release for November 2024 is now available for download with better support for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as other changes. Here's what's new! The post CachyOS ISO Release for November Improves Support for AMD and NVIDIA Users appeared f...
2024-11-10 19:55
Linux 6.12-rc7 Released: Linux 6.12 Stable On Track For Release Next Sunday
Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday...
2024-11-10 17:36
What’s new for developers? (November 2024)
WordPress 6.7 is almost here. Catch up on last-minute additions in this release and see what’s coming next for Core, Gutenberg, and WordPress Playground.
2024-11-10 13:10
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer
The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...
2024-11-10 12:24
Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore
A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...
2024-11-10 09:00
Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems
Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archiv...
2024-11-10 08:00
Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...
2024-11-10 07:13
Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model
A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux...
2024-11-10 06:45
Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements
If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...
2024-11-10 06:31
Debian 12.8 “Bookworm” Released with 68 Bug Fixes and 50 Security Updates
Debian 12.8 is now available for download with 68 bug fixes and 50 security updates for the Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series. The post Debian 12.8 “Bookworm” Released with 68 Bug Fixes and 50 Security Updates appeared firs...
2024-11-09 17:04
Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates
Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...
2024-11-09 16:53
Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...
2024-11-09 10:19
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...
2024-11-09 09:32
Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...
2024-11-09 08:40
New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...
2024-11-09 08:16