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The State Of Various Firefox Features   Software   2015-05-18

Skia Linux & Open-Source News

WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come   GNOME   2024-10-01
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance   GNOME   2024-02-21
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 Released - Increased Font Size In Help, Other Mundane Changes   Free Software   2021-10-07
LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2021-08-19
LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 Up For Testing With Its Initial GTK4 Work, Command Pop-Up / HUD   Linux Kernel   2021-08-01
LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 Released Ahead Of Official Debut Next Month   LibreOffice   2021-07-13
LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance   LibreOffice   2021-06-18
LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1 Released For This Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2021-05-25
The Vulkan API Is Now Five Years Old And Enjoying Phenomenal Success   Vulkan   2021-02-16
Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing   Nouveau   2021-01-12
Chrome 87 Dev Builds Trying Again With X11+Wayland Ozone Enabled   Google   2020-09-05
Intel mOS, Cachy, Mozilla Layoffs Were The Open-Source Buzz Of August   Phoronix   2020-09-01
LibreOffice 7.1 Starts Off With Presentation Improvements, Inclusive Config Options   LibreOffice   2020-08-16
LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-08-05
LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-07-18
LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-07-06
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-06-22
Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May   Phoronix   2020-06-02
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support   LibreOffice   2020-06-01
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering   LibreOffice   2020-05-14
LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons   LibreOffice   2020-05-08
LibreOffice 7.0 Finally Retiring Its Adobe Flash Export Support   LibreOffice   2020-04-23
LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler   LibreOffice   2020-04-20
Blend2D For 2D Rendering Now Has Multi-Threaded Support   Free Software   2020-04-15
LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support   LibreOffice   2020-03-18
LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling   LibreOffice   2020-03-10
Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February   Phoronix   2020-03-01
LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support   LibreOffice   2020-02-19
We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster   LibreOffice   2020-01-29
LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support   LibreOffice   2020-01-23
GIMP 2.99.x Development Releases Likely Starting Soon For GIMP 3.0   Desktop   2020-01-04
Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build   LibreOffice   2019-12-13
LibreOffice Git Lands Its Skia Drawing Code - Leading To Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite   LibreOffice   2019-11-30
Cairo 1.16 Released With OpenGL ES 3.0 Support, Colored Emojis   Free Software   2018-10-19
Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0   X.Org   2017-09-14
Blend2D: Working Towards A New Software-Based 2D Renderer   Free Software   2017-01-27
Firefox 51 Released With FLAC Audio Support, WebGL 2.0 By Default   Mozilla   2017-01-23
Firefox 51 To Enable WebGL 2 By Default, FLAC Audio, Skia Content Rendering On Linux   Mozilla   2016-11-17
Vim 8.0, macOS Sierra, Libreboot, & GCC Were Popular In September   Phoronix   2016-10-01
2D Rendering On X11 Remains Barely Faster Than CPU Rendering   X.Org   2016-09-23
Intel's FastUIDraw Is Very Promising For Fast, GPU-Accelerated Drawing   Intel   2016-09-22
Intel Has Been Working On A Fast 2D GPU Renderer Focused On Web Content   Intel   2016-09-08
Chrome 53 Should Be Blazing Fast   Google   2016-06-11
Off-Main-Thread Compositing Is Coming With Firefox 40 For Linux   Mozilla   2015-07-06
LinuxCon Is This Week In Chicago   Linux Events   2014-08-18
DirectFB Project Draws Up Plans For The Future   Free Software   2013-10-09
WebKit Looks To Drop Google Code, V8, Skia   Google   2013-04-04
Qt Looks Towards Using OpenGL 3.x, ANGLE   Qt   2012-06-27
Xamarin Ports Google's Android To Mono C#   SUSE   2012-05-01
Fog: A High-Performance Alternative To Cairo   Free Software   2012-03-04
Azure Replacing Cairo In Mozilla Firefox   Mozilla   2011-07-26
The Skia 2D Graphics Library From Google   Phoronix   2011-04-18