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Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 19:00
The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita 5.3 Beta is also being released at the same time for those sticking to Qt5...

NetBSD's Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don't Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 18:49
For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD's considerations for Rust in its kernel, you can perhaps find refuge within NetBSD. One of the NetBSD developers has explained why you likely won't be finding Rust code within the NetBSD kernel anytime soon...

Intel ISPC 1.30 Released With AMX Support Added To The Standard Library

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 18:00
Intel ISPC 1.30 is now available as the latest feature update to their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a variant of the C programming language to easily target their array of CPUs and GPUs...

Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 13:00
The Linux 6.19 merge window had introduced support for larger pages and compression with the Nouveau kernel driver, which ultimately should help provide a performance win to this open-source NVIDIA driver. The Mesa NVK driver was ready to make use of that new kernel driver functionality but then it ended up being disabled due to bugs. Fortunately, for the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel those issues should be resolved so then the Mesa NVK usage of the larger pages / compression support could be restored...

System76's COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 09:13
Following December's release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 08:53
Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their "50.beta" releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and some last minute improvements ahead of the stable release in March...

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