New Safari for OS X Mavericks Includes Integrated Twitter and Improved...
Like mentioned in my previous post, Apple has now announced a new Safari to go hand-in-hand with OS X Mavericks. A few new improvements have been added, including stuff you’ll notice visually, and...
View ArticleKDE’s Task Manager Is Much Improved In KDE 4.11
The task manager for the KDE Plasma desktop is much-improved in the upcoming KDE 4.11 release with some parts of it being rewritten from scratch to address longstanding issues while other improvements...
View ArticleAMD Fusion Linux Gallium3D Performance Has Improved A Lot
The performance of the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver for AMD Fusion APUs has improved a lot, but the Gallium3D driver performance still isn’t yet on par with the AMD Catalyst binary...
View ArticleMir Now Has Improved Multi-Monitor Synchronization
One day after Canonical developers landed Mir composite bypass support to dramatically improve the performance of full-screen games on Mir/XMir, Mir has picked up another important feature… Phoronix
View ArticleEXT4 Gains Aggressive Extent Caching, Improved Recovery
Ted Ts’o has filed his EXT4 file-system changes for the Linux 3.12 kernel, which includes two new features and various other fixes/refinements for this widely-used and stable Linux file-system… Phoronix
View ArticleImproved privacy for search results in Ubuntu 13.10′s Dash
Canonical has finally addressed the problem of privacy for the Dash searches in Ubuntu by implementing an anonymization feature. LXer Linux News
View ArticleBBM for Android returns to beta with new features, improved interface
Persistent notification now optional in latest beta build. It has been a long and shaky road for BBM's released on Android, but there may be a little more hope now as beta testers of the app have just...
View ArticleIntel Haswell Linux Performance Improved A Lot In 2013
With the end of the year quickly approaching, at Phoronix I have been re-testing all of the Linux graphics drivers to see how the performance has changed in 2013 and the features added/removed over the...
View ArticleIntel Haswell Linux Performance Improved A Lot In 2013
With the end of the year quickly approaching, at Phoronix I have been re-testing all of the Linux graphics drivers to see how the performance has changed in 2013 and the features added/removed over the...
View ArticleNginx Plus 2.0 Includes Improved Java Apps Support, Other Enhancements
The Nginx Plus 2.0 platform now includes improved support for Java applications as well as enhanced application health monitoring and high-availability features. Nginx users have long been able to have...
View ArticleF2FS Gets Improved Read/Write Performance
The Samsung-developed Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) will exhibit improved read/write performance for some workloads with the Linux 3.14 kernel… Phoronix
View ArticleKubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2 Released with Improved USB Creator
Canonical has just announced a few minutes ago, January 23, the immediate availability of the second Alpha release of the upcoming Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu GNOME, and Ubuntu...
View ArticleEnlightenment E19 Keeps Getting Improved
The latest work on Enlightenment E19 includes a PackageKit module and many bug-fixes… Phoronix
View ArticleMageia 4 Linux Desktop Distro Delivers Improved Performance, Features
Under the hood, Mageia is powered by the Linux 3.12 kernel, which first debuted in November. Support for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) also lands in Mageia 4 although it is currently...
View ArticleGallium3D VDPAU Gets Improved Deinterlacing
Hitting mainline Mesa this morning are improvements to the VDPAU state tracker… Phoronix
View ArticleLink-Time Optimizing Improved, But Still Takes A While On GCC 4.9
The GCC 4.9 compiler that’s about to be released has many improvements, including in the area of LTO (Link-Time Optimizations), but you must still have a fair amount of patience to compile with LTO...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 ships with tablet support and improved touch
Canonical released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with five-year support, enhanced touchscreen support, and the first stable build of Ubuntu for Tablets. Back in November 2011 when Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 ships with tablet support and improved touch
Canonical released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with five-year support, enhanced touchscreen support, and the first stable build of Ubuntu for Tablets. Back in November 2011 when Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth...
View ArticleImproved Line Graphs Come To Phoronix Results
Semi-frequently there’s been requests to improve the line graphs that are shown for certain test results within Phoronix articles. Fortunately, thanks to the work of an independent contributor, there...
View ArticleLinux 3.16: New Synaptics Driver, Improved Sony DualShock 4 Driver
The HID/input pull request for the Linux 3.16 merge window has been sent in with some useful additions… Phoronix
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