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The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 19:00
Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...

LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 18:30
The LLVM compiler toolchain has begun upstreaming support for Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" as a new means of handling ThinLTO compilations for leveraging link-time optimizations...

Around 8% Of Debian Source Packages Are Building Against Rust Libraries

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 18:18
At last week's DebConf25 Debian developer conference in France, Rust packaging within Debian Linux was talked about by Fabian Grünbichler. There an interesting statistic was shared around the growing expanse of Rust usage within Debian and the open-source ecosystem at large...

HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 18:00
HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adobe Photoshop and others...

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 17:55
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

mkcert: Make Locally-Trusted Development Certificates on Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:26
The post mkcert: Make Locally-Trusted Development Certificates on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’ve ever tried to set up HTTPS locally for development, you’ve probably run into a wall of complexity. Generating

The post mkcert: Make Locally-Trusted Development Certificates on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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