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Raspberry Pi Trading maintain their own kernel trees. It looks like this works quite well for them. Their trees contain various bits and pieces of code...

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I'm not expecting that. I know the GPU is old and slow. It's more a situation of "the hardware is slow, so we really need every last ounce of performance...

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No, I'm not saying that at all. Canonical kickstarted the performance focus with their initial fixes (and they continue their work), but others, including...

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Just looked up some numbers, looks like they currently have around 34x as many employees as Canonical. So yeah, even 30x was a very conservative approximation....

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Well, the problem with this is that "the Linux community" is largely Red Hat, a competitor of Canonical. Make of that what you will....

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Seriously, what kind of problem do some people have with Canonical? Do you seriously expect them to do as much development work as Red Hat? Red Hat is...

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This is pretty cool, I wasn't even aware that gnome-shell would render pretty much everything offscreen first. That is incredibly wasteful in terms of...

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Nice. Pinephone currently has lackluster graphics performance, let's hope some optimizations like this one will improve it.

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It's just a different style of development: many MRs, not just by Daniel van Vugt are of the "request for comments" type. So he's proposing...

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Like someone else noted, I'm, not asking for immature MRs to be merged with no proper review. I thought that was clear, because frankly, that's what I...

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There's a new lockscreen design in development that uses a blur effect. The current design looks really dated, so it can only improve....

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I really hope they land a lot more stuff! The most important area of GNOME, performance, still didn't get the attention it deserves. And this time it's...

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Yeah, LVFS is great. What I'm still missing is NVMe support. I think some experiments have been done in that direction, but nothing is shipping in fwupd...

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By the way, has anyone actually looked at the whitepaper? IMHO it's actually less impressive than the initial marketing suggests.

Performance:...

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I don't think anyone claimed that it is worse in terms of compression ratio. It's just not clearly better. The artefacts are just different. JPEG2000...

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These WebAssembly/JavaScript fallback hacks are not going to fly. Not only are they inconvenient for the people that create websites, they are also terrible...

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Not a chance. It's based on HEVC, which is an unholy mess as far as intellectual property is concerned. That is why so many companies proactively try...

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I'm not super convinced that AVIF is the future, either. There are competing specs that are very good, for instance FUIF, PIK and JPEG XL. These are properly...

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Yup, Raspberry Pi 4 had pretty much full support for everything, from day 1. Just not in the mainline kernel. Mainlining is slow simply because there's...

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JPEG2000 also supports high color depths and huge image dimensions. But these are special niche applications and it's already used in those. This hasn't...