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OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 19:27
OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...

Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 18:04
Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...

GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 17:50
Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...

Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 17:21
One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life

Phoronix - Thu, 06/11/2026 - 08:31
ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...

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