Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently utilized Claude AI to debug performance issues within the AHCI/SCSI code when using IO_uring. This collaboration led to the devel...
Read more →Phoronix has reported early performance regressions for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors when tested with development builds of Linux 7.0. Benchmarking was conducted ahead of the up...
Read more →NVIDIA today, February 19, 2026, released the 580.126.18 version of its Open GPU Kernel Vulkan Dev Beta Driver. This update follows the 580.94.17 beta driver that was made available last month. The 58...
Read more →More Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) changes have been committed to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end, further detailing the GFX1170 GPU target. This GFX1170 part, initially spotted earlier this month, is d...
Read more →PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, recently released version 2.7.126, introducing new command-line parameters for its QT frontend. This update adds "-turbo" and "-unlimited" options, allowing users to...
Read more →KDE Plasma 6.6 was released today, February 18, 2026. This version introduces new functionalities, including the ability to extract text from screenshots via Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The u...
Read more →Bottles, a Wine wrapper for managing Windows prefixes on Linux, released version 62.0 yesterday. A key update in this release is an improved GPU detection mechanism, specifically addressing systems wh...
Read more →Lutris 0.5.20, an open-source Linux game manager, was released today. The update focuses on enhancing integration with various emulators and compatibility layers, particularly Proton. Phoronix noted i...
Read more →Youthcat Games recently published a development log via AMD GPUOpen detailing significant performance optimizations for their game, Dyson Sphere Program. The studio overhauled the game's multithreadin...
Read more →Version 0.20 of Wayland compositor library used to build Wayland compositors.">wlroots, a foundational Wayland support library, is nearing its official release. Two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published over the past week, signaling its imminent arri...
Read more →A new patch series was sent out for review this weekend, aiming to significantly enhance Linux system hibernation performance. The proposed changes are particularly beneficial for systems utilizing sl...
Read more →The HID subsystem changes were merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel this week, marking an expansion in supported human interface devices. This update brings official support for Rock Band 4 guitars from b...
Read more →NVIDIA has provided open-source contributions this week to enhance the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The posted patches aim to bring up support for the NVIDIA GA100 GPU, leveraging the GPU System Pr...
Read more →Collabora recently detailed its significant contributions to the ongoing development of Linux Kernel 6.19. The company's 21 developers contributed 125 patches, focusing on key areas for graphics and s...
Read more →Ollama released version 0.16.0 yesterday, enhancing its local large language model ecosystem with new models and a simplified command-line interface. The update introduces GLM-5, a 744 billion paramet...
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