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KDE Plasma 6.5 Introducing "KISS" - An Initial System Setup Wizard

Phoronix - Sat, 08/23/2025 - 17:33
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his customary weekend blog post to summarize all the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the week. Most exciting in recent days is Plasma 6.5 receiving an initial system setup wizard...

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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