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Interesting Improvements In GNOME 2.24   Software   2008-08-15

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GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption   GNOME   2024-02-25
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance   GNOME   2024-02-21
Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled   Google   2023-10-07
Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years   Free Software   2023-09-23
WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF   GNOME   2023-04-03
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely   Red Hat   2023-02-10
Cairo Graphics Library Drops OpenGL Support After A Decade Of Inactivity   Free Software   2023-01-29
Updated WebKit Adds Experimental WebCodecs AV1, dav1d Decoder   Free Software   2023-01-13
A Big Performance Fix Is Pending For WebKit / WPE On Wayland   Wayland   2022-04-21
Firefox 93 Primed For Release With AVIF Image Support, Canonical Managing Official Snap   Mozilla   2021-10-05
Polychromatic 0.7 Released With Improved UI For Configuring Gaming Keyboards, Mice   Linux Gaming   2021-08-11
Firefox 92 To Try Again With AVIF Image Support By Default   Mozilla   2021-08-06
Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend   Free Software   2021-05-30
Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces   Wayland   2020-10-28
GNOME 3.37.2 Released As Another Step Towards GNOME 3.38   GNOME   2020-06-07
GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements   GNOME   2020-03-11
WebKitGTK 2.28 Seeing Flatpak Sandbox Support, WebGL + WebAudio By Default   GNOME   2020-02-11
KDE Frameworks 6 Progresses By Porting Code Away From Deprecated Functions   KDE   2019-12-29
Oracle Pushes Out Another Solaris 11.4 Update To End Out 2019   Oracle   2019-12-18
There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust   Google   2019-05-06
GStreamer 1.16 Is Nearly Ready With AV1 For Matroska/MP4 Containers, V4L HEVC   Multimedia   2019-04-15
New GNOME Mockups Of The Librem 5 User Interface Work   GNOME   2019-03-27
A Look At The Many Improvements & New Features In GNOME 3.32   GNOME   2019-03-13
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Reaches Beta Milestone   SUSE   2019-02-20
WebKitGTK 2.23.90 Adds Support For JPEG2000, More Touchpad Gestures   GNOME   2019-02-14
Electron Apps Are Bad, So Now You Can Create Desktop Apps With HTML5 + Golang   Desktop   2019-02-09
GStreamer Has An Exciting 2019 Planned With Some Big Features   Free Software   2019-02-05
GStreamer 1.15.1 Released With Work On AV1, V4L HEVC Encode/Decode   Multimedia   2019-01-19
GNOME 3.31.4 Released As A Big Step Towards GNOME 3.32   GNOME   2019-01-09
OpenSUSE Begins Preparing For Leap 15.1 (15 Service Pack 1)   SUSE   2018-10-17
GNOME 3.29.4 Released As Another Step Towards GNOME 3.30   GNOME   2018-07-21
Jade: New Linux Desktop Built On Python, HTML5 & JavaScript   Desktop   2018-05-27
GnuCash 3.0 Released, Ported To GTK3 Toolkit   GNU   2018-04-03
GNOME 3.28 Is Being Released This Next Week With Many Features & Improvements   GNOME   2018-03-11
A Call For Improving Cairo Rendering With Its Own Test Suite No Longer Even Passing   GNOME   2018-03-07
WebKitGTK+ 2.19.90 Adds Graphics ARIA Rolls, Horizontal Scroll Shortcut   GNOME   2018-02-05
Epiphany Tech Preview Delivers Flatpak'ed WebKitGTK+ Browser Daily   GNOME   2018-01-24
Glade 3.21 Released For Whipping Up GTK3 Interfaces   GNOME   2017-12-30
Samsung Improving Cairo's OpenGL ES 3.x Support, May Eye Vulkan In Future   X.Org   2017-12-06
Chrome 62 Promoted To Stable   Google   2017-10-18
Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0   X.Org   2017-09-14
WebKitGTK+ 2.18.0 Brings WebDriver Support, Remote Inspector & Kinetic Scrolling   GNOME   2017-09-11
WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 Brings Improved Wayland Support   GNOME   2017-09-04
Cairo 1.15.8 Released With Support For Colored Emoji   X.Org   2017-08-29
Qt WebKit Still Being Developed As An Alternative To Qt WebEngine   Qt   2017-05-03
Chromium Adds Support For Animated PNGs   Google   2017-03-14
Zapcc 1.0 Compiler Announced   Programming   2017-03-06
WebAssembly Ends Browser Preview With Initial API & Binary Format   Programming   2017-02-28
Apple Proposing A New, Lower-Level Graphics API For The Web   Standards   2017-02-07
QtWebKit Updated With WebGL Support, MinGW On Windows   Qt   2017-02-07
NVIDIA @ CES 2017 Livestream   NVIDIA   2017-01-04
Zapcc Still Aiming For "Super Fast" Compiler Performance   Programming   2016-11-23
Ubuntu Developers Continue Talks To Discontinue i386 & PowerPC Images   Ubuntu   2016-11-16
Tesla's Solar Roof Looks Great, Would Be Excellent For All Our Open-Source Benchmarking   Hardware   2016-10-30
Last Minute Wayland Fixes For GNOME 3.22   GNOME   2016-09-13
Intel Has Been Working On A Fast 2D GPU Renderer Focused On Web Content   Intel   2016-09-08
LLV8 Is An Experimental LLVM Compiler For V8 JavaScript   Google   2016-09-07
GNOME 3.22 Beta Released   GNOME   2016-08-22
New QtWebKit Preview Adds NPAPI & Qt Plugin Support   Qt   2016-08-20
Enlightenment's EFL 1.18 Released With New Wayland, Input Functionality Plus EWebkit   Desktop   2016-08-16
The Widely-Used Cairo Library Has Problems Passing Its Own Tests   Free Software   2016-07-03
That Open, Upgradeable ARM Dev Board Is Trying To Make A Comeback   Arm   2016-07-02
New Technology Preview Of QtWebKit   Qt   2016-06-19
Qt WebKit Looks To Be Making A Comeback   Qt   2016-06-12
Calamares Installer Adds LUKS Encryption Support   Operating Systems   2016-05-08
GNOME 3.20 Gets Ready To Shine With New Features   GNOME   2016-03-22
WebKitGTK+ 2.12 Turns On The FTL B3 JIT, Windowless Wayland Plugins   GNOME   2016-03-22
Qt 5.6 Scheduled To Be Released This Week   Qt   2016-03-14
Mozilla's Servo Is Whooping The Other Browsers In Performance   Mozilla   2016-03-08
Animated PNG Support Is Still Being Blocked From Google's Chrome Browser   Google   2016-02-29
Qt 5.6 Release Candidate Is Out, Three Months Late   Qt   2016-02-24
WebKit Switches Away From LLVM For Its JavaScript JIT Compiler   LLVM   2016-02-22
Opera Browser Receives Buy Out Offer For $1.2 Billion USD   Proprietary Software   2016-02-10
LLVM Continues To Dominate Across Many Operating Systems, Software Projects   LLVM   2016-02-01
Emacs 25.1 Will Have X Widgets Support   GNU   2016-01-22
Deepin 15 Linux Released   Operating Systems   2015-12-31
WebKitGTK+ Hit Hard By Over 100 Security Vulnerabilities   GNOME   2015-12-28
Deepin 15 RC Is Out, Continues To Focus On Simple & Clean Experience   Operating Systems   2015-12-24
Qt 5.6 Now In Beta, Prepares To Be A Long-Term Support Release   Qt   2015-12-21
Qt 5.6 Drops WebKit, Qt QML Uses Less Memory & Other Forthcoming Features   Qt   2015-10-11
WebKitGTK+ 2.10 Is Ready With Many Features   GNOME   2015-09-21
Tizen 3.0 Milestone Released, Finishes Replacing X.Org With Wayland   Operating Systems   2015-09-19
Midori 0.5.11 Browser Adds Client Side Decoration Support   Free Software   2015-08-30
Qt Is Looking At Making Qt 5.6 A Long-Term Support Release   Qt   2015-06-18
Qt 4.8 Forked Into New "CopperSpice" C++11 GUI Library   Qt   2015-06-09
Epiphany 3.16 Improves The GNOME Web Browser   GNOME   2015-03-24
WebKitGTK+ 2.8 Arrives With Gestures & HTML5 Notifications   GNOME   2015-03-23
The Raspberry Pi 2 Makes A Big Difference Even For Web Browsing   Raspberry Pi   2015-02-02
LLVM 2014 Developer Meeting Slides & Videos   LLVM   2014-12-08
November Was Great For Linux Users, But December Will Be Especially Interesting   Phoronix   2014-11-30
New Open-Source, Linux Benchmarks To Feast On   Phoronix   2014-11-26
Fedora 23~25 Might Switch Away From Firefox   Fedora   2014-11-16
Fifth: A New Web Browser Based On WebKitFLTK   Free Software   2014-11-15
Mozilla's Servo Engine Is Crazy Fast Compared To Gecko   Mozilla   2014-11-09
Google's Blink WebKit Engine Fork Is Doing Great   Google   2014-11-08
Manjaro Works To Make Calamares A Distribution-Independent Installer   Arch Linux   2014-10-31
Russia's Yandex Web Browser Finally Released For Linux   Free Software   2014-10-30
The Gestures Support Of GNOME 3.14   GNOME   2014-09-22
webOS Lives On As LuneOS With New Release   Operating Systems   2014-09-02
Qt 5.4 Is Now Under A Feature Freeze   Qt   2014-08-10
It's Now Possible To Play Netflix Natively On Linux Without Wine Plug-Ins   Google   2014-08-09
Qt 5.4 Going Into Feature Freeze Next Week With Exciting Changes   Qt   2014-07-29
Users Warned About Possible Regressions With DRI3   Fedora   2014-07-23
WebKit's FTL JavaScript Engine Shows Off Potential For LLVM   LLVM   2014-07-17
Raspberry Pi B+ - Still Slow, But A Small Improvement   Raspberry Pi   2014-07-14
Opera 24 On Chromium Now Available For Linux   Proprietary Software   2014-06-23
Codethink Gets The NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Running With Linux 3.15, Wayland   Hardware   2014-06-12
Qt3D 2.0 Is A Rewrite Of Qt's 3D Support   Qt   2014-05-27
Cairo Has A Lengthy TODO List   Free Software   2014-05-21
SlateKit Base OS Released For The Nexus 7 Tablet   Qt   2014-05-18
Apple Implements LLVM JIT Back-End For WebKit JavaScript   LLVM   2014-05-14
Midori 0.5.8 Browser Pulls In New WebKit2 Code   Free Software   2014-04-06
Google's Blink WebKit-Fork Is Now One Year Old   Google   2014-04-03
Exciting Features Coming For Qt 5.3   Qt   2014-02-27
GNOME Shell 3.12 Beta Has Many Late Changes   GNOME   2014-02-19
Epiphany 3.12 Beta Lands Some Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2014-02-19
WebKitGTK+ 2.3.90 Has Initial WebKit2 Touch Support   GNOME   2014-02-18
SlateKit Base: A Linux OS With Qt5 Running Off KMS/FBDEV   Qt   2014-02-08
Epiphany 3.11.4 Browser Gets Released   GNOME   2014-02-08
User Features Coming To GNOME 3.11.5   GNOME   2014-02-06
Epiphany, WebKitGTK+ Make Use Of Multiple Web Processes   GNOME   2014-02-05
A Qt5 Opera-Inspired Browser To Ring In The New Year   Qt   2013-12-31
0 A.D. Alpha 15 Gets Big Gameplay Updates   Linux Gaming   2013-12-28
The PlayStation 4 Does Use The FreeBSD Kernel, Mono   BSD   2013-12-25
Mutter, GNOME Shell Updated For GNOME 3.11.3   GNOME   2013-12-20
WebKitGTK+ 2.3.3 Brings Various Improvements   GNOME   2013-12-19
GNOME 3.12 Development Packages Start Coming   GNOME   2013-10-30
The State Of Qt On Android, Already Plans For Qt 5.3   Qt   2013-10-26
DirectFB Project Draws Up Plans For The Future   Free Software   2013-10-09
DirectFB's Ilixi Fast & Featureful Toolkit Reached v1.0   Free Software   2013-10-04
WebKitGTK+ 2.2 Release Brings Exciting Features   GNOME   2013-09-27
Maxthon Web Browser Being Ported To Linux   Free Software   2013-09-27
WebKitGTK+ 2.1.91 Supports Wayland As A Target   Wayland   2013-09-15
Clang-Format Is Taking Good Shape For LLVM 3.4   LLVM   2013-09-15
Qt Switching From WebKit To Chromium Engine   Qt   2013-09-12
A Buggy Mir Shown Running Unity 8 On Ubuntu Touch   Ubuntu   2013-09-12
Video Hardware Acceleration For WebKitGTK+   GNOME   2013-07-29
Updates To Linux As A Gaming Platform   Linux Gaming   2013-07-14
WebKitGTK+ Being Ported To Wayland   Free Software   2013-07-08
Qt4 Lives On With Nearly 400 More Improvements   Qt   2013-07-02
Lessons For Developers In Porting Games To Linux   Linux Gaming   2013-06-21
D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements   Free Software   2013-06-19
SlateKit 0.2 Shell Improves Its Web-Browser   Free Software   2013-06-06
Chrome 28 To Offer More Speed Improvements   Google   2013-05-23
Using Six Monitors With AMD's Open-Source Linux Driver   AMD   2013-05-19
Ubuntu 13.10 Likely Switching To Chromium Browser   Ubuntu   2013-05-16
SlateKit Shell: A New Qt5/QML Web-Browser   Qt   2013-05-16
Rekonq 2.3 Rounds Up New Features   KDE   2013-04-28
Midori Web-Browser Ported To Wayland   Wayland   2013-04-26
Adobe To Contribute To Blink Rendering Engine   Google   2013-04-15