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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 08:31
In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 02:47
A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop environments, and the lucrative server/cloud space. Canonical recently filed their 2024 annual report and they are now up to almost $300 million USD in revenue and a headcount of more than 1,100...

Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 02:38
Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 00:28
Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...

Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/26/2025 - 23:18
Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...

Oracle Linux 10 Reaches GA, Available With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.1

Phoronix - Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:39
Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10.0) just over one month ago, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 10.0...

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome

Phoronix - Thu, 06/26/2025 - 20:41
Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.

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