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WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:17
Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as the 2D graphics renderer. There are also other graphics improvements and more enhancements to come...

Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:07
During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...

Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 17:56
Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...

How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro

Tecmint - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 14:31
The post How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Creating a Deb package repository on SourceForge is a great way to distribute your Debian or Ubuntu packages to users

The post How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 03:22
The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...

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