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GNOME's Glycin Lands "Dramatically Improved" JPEG-XL Image Loading Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 08/23/2025 - 08:33
Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs...

OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 Brings Linux 6.16 Compatibility, Better Encryption Performance With AVX2

Phoronix - Sat, 08/23/2025 - 04:26
The first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.4 is now available for testing of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Mesa 25.3 Lands More Changes To Prepare For OpenGL Mesh Shaders

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 22:08
Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL. This is an alternative to NVIDIA's GL_NV_mesh_shader extension being worked on for Mesa drivers and in particular the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 21:32
Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops...

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