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      FreeType 2.15 Released With Apple HVF Driver, ISO Open Font Format Edition 5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:24

    FreeType 2.15 is now available for this widely-used font rendering library used across many different operating systems and software applications...
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      Intel Announces The GPU D Series For Crescent Island

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Intel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island...
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      Ubuntu's Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in "tech preview" form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases...
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      ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    With all the recent progress on Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD's official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10.
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      Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    With Mozilla's bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default...
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      Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...
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      Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel's open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps...
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      EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap...