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Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 02:22
The Servo Web Engine under the stewardship of Linux Foundation Europe and with ongoing contributions by the likes of Igalia and other developers continues having a very vibrant year. The open-source developers involved remain very busy getting this Rust-written web layout engine into good shape for possible use as an embed-friendly solution for other software...

Tiny Corp Details More Of Their Planned Tinybox System Specs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 01:23
After putting their AMD GPU powered Tinybox "on hold" only to decide a few days later to offer both AMD and NVIDIA graphics options for Tinybox compute systems, George Hotz' Tiny Corp has now shared more specifications for these planned "green" and "red" Tinybox designs...

Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 01:07
With time Microsoft's Linux kernel contributions have extended beyond just the initial business focus on Hyper-V support and other needs for Azure as well as around Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to more general contributions. Microsoft has also hired more key Linux contributors along with stakes in other projects like systemd. Earlier this week were patches from a Microsoft engineer working out Rust language improvements for the Linux kernel while now in ending out the holiday weekend are patches for making the Linux kernel language more inclusive...

Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 21:14
A new version of Flax Engine 1.8 has been released, the open-source game engine that's available for free for non-commercial and education use but with a 4% royalty for commercial games...

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 20:56
KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...

Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:54
Disclosed last August was the AMD Inception vulnerability also known as SRSO for the Speculative Return Stack Overflow. The kernel-side patches for the AMD SRSO mitigation were quickly merged. Following that were more clean-ups and fixes to the SRSO mitigation code. It's been a quiet few months since while merged on Friday was fixing some of the mitigation code due to being ineffective...

Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:45
Lead Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has carried out a big sync to upstream Mesa 24.1 for this open-source Apple Silicon OpenGL graphics driver...

KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:37
For the weekly "This Week In KDE" development summary, developer Nate Graham highlighted the opt-in DrKonqi crash reporting wizard. Thanks in part to that opt-in automatic crash reporting, details were gathered for fixing at least three important crashes within Plasma 6 this week...

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