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HarfBuzz 12.3 Released - Nice Performance Improvements To This Text Shaping Engine

Phoronix - Sun, 12/28/2025 - 04:46
HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with OpenType fonts and more...

44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust

Phoronix - Sat, 12/27/2025 - 22:44
GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas...

Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary

Phoronix - Sat, 12/27/2025 - 19:45
With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...

Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus

Phoronix - Sat, 12/27/2025 - 19:14
Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months...

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot

Phoronix - Sat, 12/27/2025 - 18:58
Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development kernel version for those platforms using EFI. But a fix is now merged ahead of Linux 6.19-rc3 due out tomorrow...

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 12/27/2025 - 10:40
Announced earlier in December but flying under the radar until now is the initial reoease of a QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop. This is a developer environment for the QNX real-time operating system primarily used on embedded systems. With now having this developer desktop option, the hassle of cross-compilation to target QNX can be avoided...

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