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PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:42
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...

Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 08:27
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...

Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 02:05
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 01:45
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

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