7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
…A very nice performance win for the already speedy 7-Zip. It will be fun to run some new 7-Zip benchmarks soon to see how the performance is stacking up in…
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LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA
…OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2…
Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads
…Wine 11.9 brings a bundled SQLite library derived from the upstream SQLite code for winsqlite3, initial support for system threads, thread suspension within the emulated code on ARM64, and more VBScript…
RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension
…VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index allows for setting a custom primitive restart index and designed to help support OpenGL emulation atop the Vulkan API. VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index was developed by…
Intel IRDMA Driver Adds Support For GEN4 Hardware In Linux 7.1
…Also included in that pull is adding PCIe TLP emulation support for the NVIDIA-Mellanox MLX5 driver and other improvements. Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake Intel…
NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing
…NetBSD 11.0 has been working on 64-bit RISC-V CPU support, initial enablement for Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptop SoCs, better support for Linux system call handling for better emulation support…
Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe
…location via touch or other external process will in turn cause LLVMpipe to trigger an emulated GPU reset. An easy, hardware-independent, and straight-forward way to now trigger a GPU reset…
Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast
…The change was tested on real Sega Dreamcast devices (PAL-E, NTSC-J) with physical CD-R discs and with GDEMU emulated discs. Before: Oops on mount and an unusable drive. After…
Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement
…VK_AMD_gpa_interface - This AMD vendor extension adds the GPU Performance API "GPA" interface for GPU global performance counters, streaming performance monitors, and SQTT thread traces on AMD Radeon GPUs. VK…