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Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:37
Another exciting milestone has been reached on Mozilla's long journey of improving the native Wayland support for the Firefox web browser on Linux...

XFS Support For FS-VERITY Moves Closer To Mainline

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:23
Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.5 merge window is the FS-VERITY pull for that support layer enabling file-systems to leverage transparent integrity and authenticity protections fr read-only files. The FS-VERITY updates for Linux 6.5 are helping to ease the upcoming XFS file-system support...

Libreboot 20230625 Released With A Few More Old Systems Added

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:10
Libreboot as the downstream of Coreboot focused on providing fully open-source system firmware without binary blobs has been quite active recently. There have been several new systems added recently, introducing support for shipping ROMs without CPU microcode included, and other changes. This latest wor has culminated into the Libreboot 20230625 release...

Vulkan 1.3.255 Released With Cooperative Matrix Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 17:55
Vulkan 1.3.255 was quietly released prior to the weekend and brings with it a new cooperative matrix extension...

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