Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Mesa 26.0-rc2 has been released, providing an initial set of bug fixes for the upcoming quarterly feature update to the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. This release candidate follows last week'...
Read more →A new DriConf workaround for Intel Linux graphics drivers has been merged into Mesa Git today. This enhancement is designed to significantly reduce initial game load times, specifically capable of hal...
Read more →LACT 0.8.4 was released today, January 26, 2026, bringing further enhancements to this third-party GPU driver user interface for Linux. LACT provides a graphical control panel for managing various asp...
Read more →PyTorch 2.10 was released today, January 22, 2026, as the latest feature update to the deep learning library. This new release continues to improve support for Intel GPUs and the AMD ROCm compute stac...
Read more →Intel Linux engineers have developed a pending patch aimed at significantly improving NVMe storage performance on high core count processors. The optimization targets situations where multiple CPUs sh...
Read more →A patch has been queued into the x86/cpu Git branch for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle, which enables Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) by default. This change applies to capab...
Read more →The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is slated to provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. This enhancement specifically targets the Intel Xe driver, which will...
Read more →Intel's Intelligent Systems Lab Organization today released Open3D 0.19, an open-source library for 3D data processing in Python and C++. This update introduces experimental cross-platform GPU support...
Read more →The open-source ZLUDA project announced its progress from the fourth quarter of 2025 today, January 14, 2026. ZLUDA, which aims to enable unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs, now bo...
Read more →Phoronix testing revealed a measurable performance impact on Intel Meteor Lake CPUs running on Linux systems with an up-to-date software stack. Recent benchmarks showed the geometric mean performance ...
Read more →The Rust-written Redox OS operating system began developing its own native Intel graphics driver at the end of last year. This initiative aims to provide direct Intel GPU support, enabling graphics ac...
Read more →Intel today formally launched its Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" System on a Chip (SoC) line during its CES keynote. These new "Panther Lake" processors represent the company's latest generation o...
Read more →Mesa 25.3.3 was released yesterday, January 1, 2026, as the newest stable point release for the Mesa 25.3 feature series. This update includes the latest bug fixes and specific workarounds for Intel V...
Read more →Phoronix recently published benchmarks revealing Windows 11 outperformed Ubuntu Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop, equipped with an Intel Arrow Lake H processor. This finding is notable as it...
Read more →Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers have submitted the final drm-xe-next pull request of 2025 for the Linux kernel. This update, sent out today, introduces new feature material for the next ...
Read more →Phoronix recently published a performance comparison between Intel's i915 and Xe kernel drivers for Arc Alchemist GPUs on Linux 6.19. The i915 driver is currently the default for Intel Arc A-Series "A...
Read more →Intel is preparing to deliver functional display support for its upcoming Nova Lake processors, with the target being Linux 6.20 or potentially Linux 7.0. The in-development Linux 6.19 kernel recently...
Read more →Intel's Video Processing Library (libvpl) recently received an update, reaching version 2.16. The most notable addition in this release is the integration of experimental APIs designed for AI-assisted...
Read more →Flatpak 1.16.2, the Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework, was released in January 2025. This update introduced support for VA-API hardware video acceleration for Intel Xe GPUs. The release ...
Read more →Intel engineers Tim Chen and Chen Yu presented their Cache Aware Scheduling work last week at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. This proposed innovation for the Linux kernel aims to improve...
Read more →TUXEDO Computers today launched the Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop. This new model features an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti discrete GPU. It supports up to 96 GB of R...
Read more →Phoronix reported today that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver stack demonstrated significant performance improvements throughout 2025. The analysis focused on the evolution of OpenGL and Vulk...
Read more →Mesa 25.3, the latest open-source graphics driver stack for Linux, has been released. This update delivers significant Vulkan and OpenGL enhancements across AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers. Th...
Read more →Intel's open-source driver support for its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator was rejected from the Linux 6.19 kernel mainline merge window yesterday. Intel had submitted the substantial patch set last night, aim...
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