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Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 23:00
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up and running on Linux...

GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 20:07
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...

Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 19:45
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...

Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 19:38
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...

134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 19:19
While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code...

FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 09:30
Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...

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