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Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 13:00
Firefox 96.0 is officially shipping today as the first update of 2022 for this open-source web browser...

Btrfs Seeing Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 07:45
With the Btrfs file-system popularity ticking back up, that seems to be helping upstream enthusiasm and development efforts as with Linux 5.17 there is yet more exciting work...

Intel Announces New Leader Of Client Computing Group

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 05:36
Intel announced new leadership changes today as 2022 gets started for what is expected to be an eventful year at the company with Sapphire Rapids, Raptor Lake, and Intel Arc graphics ahead...

Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 04:09
While many were upset by CentOS Linux 8 going premature EOL at the end of last year, for those that made the move to CentOS Stream there continues to be a love of moment in part by the recently establisher Hyperscale SIG. For CentOS Stream 9, the big hyperscalers have been working on some interesting additions/backporting to the platform...

DragonFlyBSD 6.2 Released With AMD Graphics Driver, Better HAMMER2, NVMM Hypervisor

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 02:58
DragonFlyBSD 6.2 is now available as the latest version of this popular BSD open-source operating system...

Google Rolls Chrome 98 Into Beta With COLRv1 Font Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 02:34
Following last week's release of Chrome 97, Google has promoted Chrome 98 to beta form...

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