F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19 The Flash-Friendly File-System "F2FS" is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...

F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

The Flash-Friendly File-System 'F2FS' is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle.

Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content...

Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME - Phoronix

Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2 The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics...

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2 - Phoronix

The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver

Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system...

Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" - Phoronix

Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system.

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland...

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland - Phoronix

The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland.

Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers. The newer I3C "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" interface changes have now been merged and the big feature there is HDR support. Not to be confused with the more common High Dynamic Range acronym usage for HDR, HDR in the I3C context is for the "High Data Rate" mode for facilitating faster data transfers...

Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers - Phoronix

I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers

Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs...

Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textu...

Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting...

Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port - Phoronix

Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application

KDE Plasma 6.6 Supporting Per-DRM-Plane Color Pipelines, More Hardware Quirks/Fixes It was a busy start of December for KDE Plasma developers in working out several hardware fixes for the current Plasma 6.5 series while also working on new Plasma 6.6 features like the per-DRM-plane color pipelines...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Supporting Per-DRM-Plane Color Pipelines, More Hardware Quirks/Fixes - Phoronix

It was a busy start of December for KDE Plasma developers in working out several hardware fixes for the current Plasma 6.5 series while also workin...

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs...

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 - Phoronix

Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other re...