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FSF Slams Google Over Dropping JPEG-XL In Chrome

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 18:46
Last October Google engineers decided they would deprecate JPEG-XL support in Chrome over some debated rationale for the move. Even amid the community uproar they went ahead to drop the JPEG-XL support. The Free Software Foundation has finally commented on the matter...

digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 18:33
The digiKam 8.0 open-source professional photo management software has been released. The digiKam 8.0 release brings a host of new features and improvements, including ongoing work of porting over to the Qt6 toolkit...

LXQt 1.3 Released While Qt6 Porting Remains A Work-In-Progress

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 01:29
LXQt 1.3 was just released as the newest version of this lightweight Qt-based desktop environment...

Reworked x86_64 Parallel Boot Support Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 23:44
Being worked on for a while has been Linux kernel patches to speed boot times by allowing the parallel bring-up of CPU cores. There were AMD boot issues since worked around and the patches gone through multiple revisions for helping with Linux kernel boot times. Those patches continue to be improved upon and yesterday saw a reworked patch series posted...

OpenZFS 2.1.10 Released - Adds Linux 6.2 Support, Finally Drops Python 2 Compatibility

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 21:06
OpenZFS 2.1.10 is out as the latest update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently supported on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Libreboot Adds Support For The Once Common HP Elite 8200 SFF PC

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 20:35
The HP Elite 8200 was once popular and very common among workplaces and can still be found used/refurbished for a little more than $100 for this small form factor PC. Libreboot has now added support for the HP Elite 8200 as its newest desktop port for this Intel Sandy Bridge era system...

Mesa 23.1-rc1 Published For Testing With Many Graphics Driver Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 18:47
Following this week's Mesa 23.1 feature freeze and code branching, Eric Engestrom on Friday night published Mesa 23.1-rc1...

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