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Phoronix: Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support Besides a new Raspberry Pi renderer for Weston, another interesting set of Wayland patches...

Phoronix: Chrome 27 Loads Web Pages Faster Google has announced the release of their Chrome 27 web-browser, which most notably provides faster...

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer After working on the Raspberry Pi support for Wayland/Weston, Pekka Paalanen has announced...

Phoronix: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Release Brings New Packages While it wasn't part of the Debian 7.0 Wheezy release earlier this month, the GNU...

Phoronix: Intel Ultrabook Performance Is Faster With Mesa 9.2 For those that were turned on by the recent Radeon Gallium3D performance...

Phoronix: Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs In working to enhance the performance of the Btrfs file-system in cases where certain...

Phoronix: Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 "Utsira" Released Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 (codenamed "Utsira") has been officially released today with...

Phoronix: New Intel X.Org Driver Supports All Of Haswell With the public launch of Intel's beautiful Haswell CPU being imminent, Intel has...

Phoronix: Mesa 9.1.3 Release Corrects Some Bugs Mesa 9.1.3 was released today to address some outstanding bugs back-ported from the current Mesa...

Phoronix: SQLite Now Faster With Memory Mapped I/O SQLite 3.7.17 was released yesterday. What makes this new release of the popular lightweight...

Phoronix: Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X In revisiting the OpenGL graphics and gaming performance for an older Intel Core i5...

Phoronix: Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has Bug-Fixes Microsoft has finally done the Skype for Linux 4.2 update, which rolls in a bunch...

Phoronix: Qt For Tizen Launches, Based On Qt 5.1 Just two weeks after talking about a Qt 5 tool-kit port for the Tizen platform being worked on,...

Phoronix: KTAP Released For Linux Kernel Dynamic Tracing Version 0.1 of KTAP has been released to provide a new scripting dynamic tracing tool for...

Phoronix: Linux 3.10-rc2 Kernel Takes In A Few Extra Pulls The second release candidate for the Linux 3.10 kernel is now out there. Torvalds...

Phoronix: Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading The Handbrake open-source video transcoder program now supports using OpenCL for accelerating...

Phoronix: QEMU 1.5 Supports VGA Passthrough, Better USB 3.0 Just three months after the exciting QEMU 1.4 release, QEMU 1.5 is now available with...

Phoronix: Freedreno Gallium3D Now Banging The Adreno A3XX One month after Rob Clark began developing his Freedreno Gallium3D stack for Qualcomm's...

Phoronix: Jolla Announces Their First Phone The ex-Nokia developers that formed Jolla to work on Sailfish OS to work on a new range of Linux-based...

Phoronix: The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption It's been a while since last running any Ubuntu Linux disk encryption benchmarks, but thanks to...

Phoronix: Mageia 3 Released, Still Using Legacy GRUB At long last the third major version of Mageia, the popular community fork of Mandriva Linux,...