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KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-Performance-Hardware

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3.5-Released

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-ML-LIB-RFC

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine

Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel's much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today's article are more Panther Lake … https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-panther-lake-linux-power

"DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without … https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DHEI-RFC

GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-FOSDEM-2026-Hackfest

Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance The Linux 6.19 merge window had introduced support for larger pages and compression with the Nouveau kernel driver, which ultimately should help provide a performance win to this open-source NVIDIA driver. The Mesa NVK driver was ready to make use of that new kernel driver functionality but then it ended up being disabled due to bugs. Fortunately, for the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel those issu… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-To-Fix-Nouveau-Large

System76's COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience Following December's release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates... https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Features-Coming