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Phoronix is a source for GNOME news archives, articles and reviews, forums and more. Michael Larabel is the founder and principal author of Phoronix. He has authored thousands of articles on open-source software, the state of Linux hardware and other topics.
Phoronix » GNOME
1w ago
Merged on Tuesday into GNOME Mutter is NVIDIA secondary GPU copy acceleration support that allows for much better performance of hybrid laptops featuring integrated graphics paired with a discrete NVIDIA GPU ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1w ago
There is a new post on the GTK blog outlining some of the recent enhancements to this open-source toolkit for benefiting the graphics/GPU offloading capabilities ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1w ago
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines ongoing exciting work to the desktop thanks to the additional funding from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund plus a variety of other ongoing desktop/app enhancements ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
2w ago
In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
The GNOME 46 release candidate was officially rolled out today as the last chance to test the GNOME 46 desktop software ahead of its stable release later this month ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
The GNOME Prompt terminal emulator in-development by Christian Hergert with a focus on GPU-acceleration and being a very speedy and beautiful terminal option has been renamed to Ptyxis ..read more
Phoronix » GNOME
1M ago
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn ..read more