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      Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago - 11:27

    The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago - 11:06

    KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components...
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      FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago - 10:50

    FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted...
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      GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago - 01:15

    In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...
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      NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago - 21:19

    It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...
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      Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago - 18:02

    Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month...
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      Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago - 17:08

    Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...
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      IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago - 16:57

    It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus. Now joining the Incus family is IncusOS as an immutable Linux OS built atop a Debian base with OpenZFS file-system support and designed around running containers with Incus...
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      Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago - 15:25

    Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.