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Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play

…This addresses issues uncovered with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer and should provide more portable guarantees and more predictable performance characteristics. NVIDIA added descriptor heap support in their R595 Linux driver while now…

Apr 14, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.1-WQ

WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC

…The default unbound workqueue with WQ_AFFN_CACHE where there is just one pool for the entire system can lead to contention and hurt I/O performance. While this issue is most…

Apr 15, 2026

phoronix.com › news › FreeRDP-3.25-Released

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions IBM s390…

Apr 23, 2026

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Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support Fwupd 2…

Apr 6, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-Old-Network-AI

Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden

…Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users…

Apr 21, 2026

phoronix.com › news › xf86-video-nv-2026

Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions IBM s390…

Apr 26, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.0.6-Released

Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support Fwupd 2…

May 11, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Archinstall-4.2

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions IBM s390…

Apr 15, 2026

phoronix.com › news › KDE-1M-EUR-Investment

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund

…Root Privilege On All Distributions Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support

May 13, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.0-rc6-EXT4-Fixes

Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6

…Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support Fwupd 2…

Mar 29, 2026