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Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 23:15
The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...

Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 22:33
Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...

Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 21:05
While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares...

Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 20:31
The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...

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