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Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February, 2025

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...

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Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...

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Intel's Newest Open-Source Project Is "Polite Guard"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...

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Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

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GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

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Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO)...

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Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less cohesive user experience. KDE developer Arjen Hiemstra is hoping to change that with the Union project...

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Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest feature...

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New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2025

A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...

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