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Phoronix: Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better

The security researcher that uncovered a host of X.Org security issues went beyond just evaluating the X.Org libraries and looked at...

Phoronix: KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release

For those that didn't hear already, KDE 4.11 will be the last Plasma Workspaces feature release in the KDE4 series and...

Phoronix: New NVIDIA Linux Driver Supports The GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA released today the 319.23 Linux graphics driver, which supports the just-released GeForce GTX 780 graphics card. There's also...

Phoronix: Chrome 28 To Offer More Speed Improvements

This week's release of the Google Chrome 27 web-browser was made known by its faster load-times. While now in beta form, Chrome 28 will also...

Phoronix: Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project

Digia has announced a new commercial endeavour that pairs a lightweight Qt stack atop an Android kernel/base operating system...
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Phoronix: X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues

It was just last month that there was an X.Org Server security issue dealing with hot-plugging of input devices. Being announced today is...

Phoronix: Fedora 18 Comes To ARMv6, Raspberry Pi

While Fedora 18 has been out for months and so has Fedora 18 for ARM, an ARMv6 spin of Fedora 18 targeting the popular Raspberry Pi development...

Phoronix: Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support

Besides a new Raspberry Pi renderer for Weston, another interesting set of Wayland patches today is for providing output scaling support with...

Phoronix: Chrome 27 Loads Web Pages Faster

Google has announced the release of their Chrome 27 web-browser, which most notably provides faster load times of web-pages...
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Phoronix: Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer

After working on the Raspberry Pi support for Wayland/Weston, Pekka Paalanen has announced a new "rpi-renderer" for the low-cost ARM...

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 non-Linux folks have now put out Debian GNU/Hurd 2013....

Phoronix: Intel Ultrabook Performance Is Faster With Mesa 9.2

For those that were turned on by the recent Radeon Gallium3D performance improvements found in Mesa 9.2 but are Intel Linux graphics...

Phoronix: Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs

In working to enhance the performance of the Btrfs file-system in cases where certain data/files are frequently used, a set of patches for...

Phoronix: Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 "Utsira" Released

Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 (codenamed "Utsira") has been officially released today with compiler improvements, support for the HHVM virtual...

Phoronix: New Intel X.Org Driver Supports All Of Haswell

With the public launch of Intel's beautiful Haswell CPU being imminent, Intel has released the xf86-video-intel 2.21.7 DDX driver that...

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 9.2 development code...
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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 SQL database software noteworthy is that it...

Phoronix: Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X

In revisiting the OpenGL graphics and gaming performance for an older Intel Core i5 "Sandy Bridge" Apple system, the Ubuntu 13.04...

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 of bug-fixes but still doesn't put the Linux Skype...

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, the first release is now available...
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