Linux Graphics & Gaming News
The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is undergoing a significant change in its graphics and accelerator drivers, with a specific DRM ioctl interface being disabled. This interface, which was original...
Read more →Flathub, the primary distribution platform for Flatpak applications, announced a policy change regarding software developed using artificial intelligence tools. Effective today, June 6, 2026, the stor...
Read more →Ollama, the framework for running large language models locally, recently released version 0.30.5. This update primarily addresses a "gemma4:12b floating point exception crash" that affected the newly...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to include initial support enabling it to boot on Apple M3 devices, such as the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. This development marks a founda...
Read more →CachyOS has achieved a new milestone, with its distro share on ProtonDB now exceeding the peak share Arch Linux ever held. This development was reported recently by Boiling Steam, noting that CachyOS ...
Read more →Valve published the May 2026 Steam Survey results yesterday. The data indicates that Linux's share of the Steam gaming market is "just under 4%", according to Phoronix, following a delay in the survey...
Read more →COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today, June 4, 2026, bringing Wayland Pointer Constraints to the desktop environment. This implementation is intended to provide a "better gaming experience," as noted...
Read more →Canonical yesterday announced the promotion of its Steam Snap for ARM64 to the stable channel. First announced in January, this snap enables Steam gaming on ARM64 Linux hardware, having been tested on...
Read more →NVIDIA's upcoming open-source Nova driver is moving closer to supporting Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors. Out this week was the 12th iteration of enablement code for these architectures in th...
Read more →The new KRAID compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics has been merged into Mesa 26.2. This integration will benefit the open-source Panfrost and PanVK drivers, which provide OpenGL ES and Vulkan support...
Read more →Intel released new versions of its open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software this week. The updated XPU Manager now includes support for the Intel Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 discrete grap...
Read more →As of early June, the X.Org Server and its XWayland component have been found to contain nine new security vulnerabilities. These flaws were reportedly discovered through the use of artificial intelli...
Read more →The Khronos OpenCL Working Group today released OpenCL 3.1, elevating several previously optional capabilities into the core specification. Conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementations are now required to co...
Read more →Recent reports indicate significant progress on the Wayland display server protocol.">COSMIC Desktop environment's new "Frosted Glass" appearance. This visual effect, which is actively being developed for the Rust and Wayland based de...
Read more →AMD officially announced the Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card yesterday at Computex 2026. This new RDNA 4 consumer GPU is positioned with a price point of approximately $549 USD and becomes available ...
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