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Intel FRED Can Yield Greater Performance - FRED Benchmarks On Panther Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2026 - 23:20
With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.

Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2026 - 22:06
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...

Linux's sched_ext Will Prioritize Idle SMT Siblings For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2026 - 21:04
A change to the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" for allowing nifty scheduler implementations via BPF programs will begin to prioritize SMT siblings to help with better performance...

Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"

Phoronix - Mon, 03/23/2026 - 18:38
Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...

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