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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released
Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver - Phoronix
Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-OS-Beta-NTSYNC
Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver - Phoronix
Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NzEwMg
Arch Linux Revolts Against ATI Catalyst Driver - Phoronix
While AMD continues to improve the ATI Catalyst Linux driver from where they were at years ago by introducing new features like CrossFire and OpenGL 3.0...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/EndeavourOS-Titan
EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration - Phoronix
EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-Per-Process-BO-Query
AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GD-ROM-Dreamcast-Fix
Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast - Phoronix
Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-KHR_copy_memory_indirect
Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect - Phoronix
In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Preview-DRM-Color-Pipe
NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support - Phoronix
Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Loongson-DRM-Driver-No-Orphan
Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned - Phoronix
The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-DXGKRNL-Linux-v4
Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years - Phoronix
Well, here's an unexpected surprise..
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GCN-1.1-APUs-Default
AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs - Phoronix
With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux
New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ham-Radio-MKISS-2026
Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026 - Phoronix
Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the 'MKISS' driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SynapseAI-Stops
Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code - Phoronix
There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-7.1-Multi-SDMA
AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.1-Panel-Replay
Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop - Phoronix
Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-THP-For-Device-SVM
Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Enabling THP For Device Pages As A Big SVM Win - Phoronix
Sent out today was a new batch of 'drm-xe-next' material of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ready for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NXP-Neutron-NPU-User-Blob
NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob - Phoronix
Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support - Phoronix
Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Adaptive-Sync-SDP-Patches
Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support - Phoronix
Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tyr-Begins-Handling-Work
Rust-Based Arm GPU Kernel Driver "Tyr" Begins Running GNOME & Basic Games - Phoronix
Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-EDuke32-Fixes
RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026 - Phoronix
It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-No-Gaudi-3-Driver
Intel Gaudi 3 Driver Support Already Rejected For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix
Last night Intel finally posted their Gaudi 3 accelerator open-source driver support for the mainline Linux kernel with hopes of getting that long-delayed AI...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-MPAM-LInux-6.19
Arm MPAM Driver Upstreamed To The Linux 6.19 Kernel - Phoronix
The ARM64 code changes were merged last week into the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.1
While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Last week saw the 'NTFS resurrection' as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID
hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices - Phoronix
Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synology-Microp-Linux-Driver
New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices - Phoronix
A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.58.03-Linux
NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build - Phoronix
Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes
DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel - Phoronix
Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device 'DRBD' for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SBI-EPYC-Venice
AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
The Linux kernel continues getting ready for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-7.1
AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/DX-Shader-Compiler-Better-VLK
Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability - Phoronix
Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU
AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP - Phoronix
Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-RDMA
AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA Driver Added To Linux 6.18, Intel IPU E2000 Hardware Too - Phoronix
The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Graphics-Drivers
Linux 7.1 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Merged With Intel & AMD Leading The Way - Phoronix
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver and accelerator driver changes for Linux 7.1 were recently merged to Git
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MFD
Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks - Phoronix
The Linux Multi-Function Device 'MFD' subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-BTP-BTI-RCC-Keying
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance - Phoronix
Intel's open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying
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https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xe-i915-linux-619
Intel Xe vs. i915 Driver Performance On Linux 6.19 For Arc Alchemist GPUs - Phoronix
Similar to AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs where there was product overlap between the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers (and now using AMDGPU by default for those aging...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Released
Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix - Phoronix
Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Qualcomm-MSM
Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Driver-Pulsar-Gaming-Mice
Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice - Phoronix
A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities.
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-For-Linux-7.1
A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions - Phoronix
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/OneXPlayer-Config-HID-Driver
OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer - Phoronix
Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Staging
Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 - Phoronix
Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel's staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-20.0-Defaults-Intel-G3D
Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL - Phoronix
After missing their original target of transitioning to Intel Gallium3D by default for Mesa 19.3 as the preferred OpenGL Linux driver on Intel graphics...
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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Driver-Linux-1.30
Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux - Phoronix
For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space
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