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GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 04:45
The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...

Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 02:03
Following last week's code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter's feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 00:23
The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...

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