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2026-08-16 23:24:04 UTC

Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Released
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2026-04-16 21:39:06 UTC

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play
Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-Beta
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2026-04-16 21:39:05 UTC

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-sched-ext
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2026-04-16 17:54:06 UTC

Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.26-Released
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2026-04-16 13:24:05 UTC

Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements
Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-1.95-Released
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2026-04-16 12:24:04 UTC

Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client
Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Thunderbolt
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2026-04-16 10:39:09 UTC

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs
Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs
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2026-04-15 14:39:11 UTC

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations
Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-rc1-Released
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2026-04-15 00:24:05 UTC

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486
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2026-04-14 15:39:04 UTC

Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More
Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released
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2026-04-14 15:09:05 UTC

GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions
GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-50.1
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2026-04-14 14:09:04 UTC

X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities
X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.22
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2026-04-14 13:55:23 UTC

Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support
Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sunshine-v2026.413.143228

2026-04-14 13:24:05 UTC

OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support
OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.0-Released
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2026-04-14 12:39:49 UTC

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play
As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Merges-Descriptor-Heap
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2026-04-14 10:40:00 UTC

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops
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2026-04-14 10:09:05 UTC

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting
Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-ARM64-Booting
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2026-04-12 11:09:06 UTC

CMake Pursuing Tighter Integration With Package Managers, Other Improvements
While the Meson build system has been capturing much of the limelight in recent years by open-source projects, the cross-platform CMake build system also shows no signs of slowing down and continues evolving with new features and functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CMake-Tighter-Package-Integrate
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2026-04-11 13:40:05 UTC

D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan
D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft's Direct3D API...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.7-Released
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2026-04-11 11:09:05 UTC

Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS
Microsoft on Friday released linux-msft-wsl-6.18.20.1 as the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel updated against the Linux 6.18 LTS series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-LTS-Microsoft-WSL2
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2026-04-11 10:54:08 UTC

Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support
Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cage-0.3-Released

2026-04-10 16:09:04 UTC

Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes
The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Changes
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2026-04-10 14:24:05 UTC

Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux
It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026
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2026-04-10 12:39:05 UTC

Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension
Vulkan 1.4.349 is out today as a small update to the Vulkan API specification that incorporates various fixes that accumulated over the past week. Plus there is one new extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.349
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2026-04-10 10:24:05 UTC

More SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC Functionality Expected For Linux 7.1
The SpacemiT K3 is exciting as one of the first RISC-V RVA23 designs coming to market. For the Linux 7.0 kernel there is initial K3 support in the mainline kernel while the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is expected to land more K3 enablement...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-SpacemiT-K3-For-Linux-7.1
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2026-04-10 00:24:05 UTC

FEX 2604 Released With Better Memory Savings For Running x86_64 Apps/Games On ARM64
Out today is the newest monthly update to FEX for this emulator for running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems, including games and the likes of Steam Play with Windows games. This Valve-sponsored project that is quite important for the upcoming Steam Frame has rolled out more performance improvements, memory savings, and other improvements with FEX 2604...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2604-Released
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2026-04-09 14:09:03 UTC

RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up
In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-RISC-V-strnlen
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2026-04-09 13:24:05 UTC

Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware
Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS f…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Better-Gaming-Low-vRAM
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2026-04-09 12:39:18 UTC

FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion
Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-360-Degree-Vulkan
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2026-04-09 10:09:04 UTC

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension
The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Primitive-Restart-Index
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2026-04-08 10:24:04 UTC

Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API
Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-147-Stable-Released
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2026-04-08 00:40:04 UTC

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Trashing Arbitrary Host Files
In addition to the release today of Flatpak 1.16.4 for shipping new security fixes including a sandbox escape and the ability to delete host files, XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 is also now available with another security fix of its own to prevent sandboxed apps from being able to trash arbitrary host files...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.20.4
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2026-04-07 21:54:04 UTC

Flatpak 1.16.4 Brings Important Security Fixes For Sandbox Escape & Deleting Host Files
That Flatbox app sandboxing and distribution system is out today with important security updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.16.4-Released
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2026-04-07 10:24:06 UTC

RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed
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2026-04-06 22:09:04 UTC

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released
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2026-04-05 16:54:05 UTC

Linux 7.1 To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
It's finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486
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2026-04-05 10:54:05 UTC

hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices
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 being connected to the system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID
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2026-04-05 10:40:30 UTC

Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe
As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Fake-GPU-Reset
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2026-04-04 16:54:06 UTC

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Input-Fixes
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2026-04-04 10:24:04 UTC

KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Improvements
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2026-04-03 14:39:11 UTC

Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd
Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-GNU-Hurd-Experimental
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2026-04-03 12:39:24 UTC

Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VM-Pressure-TCP-Through
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2026-04-03 09:54:22 UTC

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation
Vulkan 1.4.348 released this morning as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.348 comes four new extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.348-Released
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2026-04-02 10:24:04 UTC

Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-MR-Zink-By-Default
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2026-04-02 00:54:09 UTC

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
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2026-04-01 20:09:05 UTC

NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support
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 per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Preview-DRM-Color-Pipe
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2026-04-01 16:39:08 UTC

Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source "Spiritual Successor" To WordPress
Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-EmDash
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2026-04-01 12:39:06 UTC

Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management
Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.48
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2026-04-01 00:39:06 UTC

Gaim 3 Is In Development For Restoring The Original Gaim Instant Messaging App In GTK4
Gaim! Any desktop Linux users from 20+ years ago likely remember the Gaim instant messaging app that was commonly shipped by desktop Linux distributions for interfacing with different instant messaging platforms like AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. About twenty years ago Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though due to the AOL Instant Messenger trademark. But with the AIM trademark since expired and want…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gaim-3-In-Development
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2026-04-01 00:24:05 UTC

AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates
AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026.03
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2026-03-31 22:54:04 UTC

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 Released With Aged & Agectl For Age Verification/Attestation
MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-4.0.4
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2026-03-31 22:09:05 UTC

xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling
A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing "xx-fractional-scale-v2" as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings with current Wayland fractional scaling. There is also a KDE KWin compositor merge request already out for review that implements this xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin
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2026-03-31 14:39:05 UTC

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-For-Linux-7.1
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2026-03-31 13:09:06 UTC

Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup
One of the latest Linux kernel optimizations being worked on by Meta's large kernel engineering team is making reading of /proc/interrupts less costly. Due to monitoring of their servers frequently reading /proc/interrupts, it's actually become a noticeable cost over time with their massive fleet of systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-Optimizing-Proc-Interrupts
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2026-03-31 10:09:05 UTC

MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" WiFi Support Coming Together For Linux
In addition to the MediaTek MT7902 WiFI Linux support emerging in recent months, the Linux support for the MediaTek MT7927 is also coming together for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support for the upstream Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MediaTek-MT7927-WiFi-Linux
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2026-03-30 22:39:07 UTC

Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI
Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-4.0-Released
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2026-03-30 13:09:05 UTC

RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options
The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-Low-Latency
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2026-03-29 11:39:14 UTC

Many EXT4 Fixes Lined Up For Linux 7.0-rc6
Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc6-EXT4-Fixes
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2026-03-29 10:54:06 UTC

Nginx 1.29.7 Delivers Multipath TCP Support
Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.29.7-Multipath-TCP
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2026-03-29 10:40:14 UTC

RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026
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 is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-EDuke32-Fixes
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2026-03-28 11:39:37 UTC

LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance
Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-DTLTO-Faster-Files-Link
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2026-03-28 11:24:05 UTC

Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions
Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gedit-50-Released
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2026-03-28 10:40:10 UTC

KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing
It's been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Microphone
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2026-03-27 15:39:08 UTC

KDE Plasma 6.6 Showing Frequent Performance Advantage Over GNOME 50 With NVIDIA R595 Driver
Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at KDE Plasma 6.6's performance advantage over GNOME 50 for Linux gaming with AMD Radeon graphics. That raised the question if the same was true when using NVIDIA graphics with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Here are such benchmarks looking at the KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 performance on Ubuntu 26.04 beta while using …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome
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2026-03-27 01:09:05 UTC

wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management
Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Sway-1.12-rc1
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2026-03-26 21:39:05 UTC

KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support
Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step
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2026-03-26 16:09:05 UTC

Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver
As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver ha…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau
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2026-03-26 13:54:06 UTC

AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AMD this morning finally announced the long-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship processor with 3D V-Cache for both of the CCDs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-9-9950X3D2
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2026-03-26 10:39:04 UTC

Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box
One of the early features for Fedora 45 that was approved this week is enabling IPv6-mostly support within NetworkManager for a more modern out-of-the-box network experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-IPv6-Mostly
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2026-03-25 15:09:06 UTC

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04
In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-gnome-kde
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2026-03-25 10:39:06 UTC

Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Lighter-GRUB
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2026-03-25 10:24:05 UTC

Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release
With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora 44 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-For-Fedora-44
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2026-03-25 09:54:06 UTC

Unvanquished 0.56 Released With More Renderer Improvements, OpenMP Added To Engine
Unvanquished 0.56 is out today as the latest major update to this prominent open-source, community-driven shooter game. Unvanquished continues progressing after more than a decade in development for this open-source game and with today's v0.56 release features improved visuals, OpenMP for CPU-based rendering of skeletal models, and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unvanquished-0.56
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2026-03-25 00:24:04 UTC

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-BTP-BTI-RCC-Keying
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2026-03-24 14:09:06 UTC

NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build
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 morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.58.03-Linux
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2026-03-24 13:39:09 UTC

Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes
Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-EEVEE-2x-Perf
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2026-03-24 13:24:05 UTC

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Krita-6.0-Released
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2026-03-24 00:24:04 UTC

GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year
The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK3-Annual-Release-Cadence
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2026-03-23 17:40:05 UTC

XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port
Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XMMS-AI-Port-To-PipeWire-GTK4
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2026-03-23 14:09:07 UTC

Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-149
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2026-03-23 10:54:06 UTC

Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"
Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.11-Toolkit
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2026-03-23 10:39:06 UTC

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation
Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Joins-Rust-Foundation
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2026-03-23 10:09:05 UTC

Arm Ethos U85 NPU Now Supported By EthosU Gallium3D Driver
Merged overnight for Mesa 26.1 is enabling the Arm Ethos U85 NPU within the EthosU Gallium3D driver so that with Mesa's TEFLON framework can begin taking on AI workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Ethos-U85-Mesa-26.1
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2026-03-22 21:39:07 UTC

D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend
D7VK is the open-source project that began as a Direct3D 7 implementation atop the Vulkan API for Linux gamers and with time expanded to support all the way back to Direct3D 3. Out today is D7VK 1.6 with continuing to enhance this D3D compatibility layer atop Vulkan for enhancing retro/vintage gaming on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.6-Released
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2026-03-22 13:40:10 UTC

mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap
The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/mdadm-4.6
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2026-03-22 10:54:05 UTC

Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support
For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops. But for the past several months, Wayland has been well supported out-of-the-box on upstream Electron. An Electron blog post this week outlined the technical work done for achieving good Wayland support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Electron-Good-Wayland-Support
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2026-03-22 10:09:04 UTC

OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer
Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices. Such as Lenovo Legion improvements for Linux, Ayn gaming handheld improvements, and most recently Linux 7.1 set to introduce the new Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers. With the latest Lenovo Legion driver work wrapped up for Linux 7.1, Derek Clark today posted a set …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OneXPlayer-Config-HID-Driver
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2026-03-22 00:24:05 UTC

Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel
A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders around Sashiko and the latest addition is now covering the R…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sashiko-AI-Reviewing-Rust-Linux
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2026-03-21 13:24:06 UTC

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center
LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26-Donation-Banner
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2026-03-21 10:54:07 UTC

KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs
In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-KWin-Does-3D-LUTs
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2026-03-21 10:24:05 UTC

SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion
For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysV-Init-3.16
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2026-03-21 00:54:04 UTC

Cambalache 1.0 Released After Five Years For Designing Modern GTK UIs
Cambalache 1.0 released today after more than five years in development as a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) application for creating and editing user interfaces for both GTK3 and GTK4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cambalache-1.0-GTK-UIs
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2026-03-20 13:54:19 UTC

Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Enhanced Performance For AMD Radeon Linux Gaming
Earlier this month was a preview of the Ubuntu 26.04 performance benefits for NVIDIA Linux gaming while today's article is providing an early look at how the open-source AMD Radeon gaming experience is looking for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-radeon-gaming
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2026-03-20 13:09:05 UTC

Patches Sent Out For Booting Linux On Apple M3 But Without Much Functionality
Asahi Linux developers have been working for a while now on porting Asahi Linux to the Apple M3 hardware that launched back in 2023. Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were finally Device Tree files for booting Linux on Apple M3 hardware but it's far from functional for end-users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-DT-Boot-Linux
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2026-03-20 12:24:06 UTC

Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization
Huawei engineer Chen Jinghuang posted the latest request for comments (RFC) patches for stealing tasks from overloaded CPUs in the same last level cache (LLC) in order to improve overall CPU utilization with today's large core count servers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steal-Tasks-Improve-CPU
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2026-03-20 10:24:07 UTC

Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.347-Released
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2026-03-20 10:24:05 UTC

Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property
Sent out today was the latest weekly round of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window that is set to happen in mid-to-late April...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-CRTC-Background-Color
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2026-03-20 10:09:05 UTC

Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container
An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-Beta-In-Container
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2026-03-19 16:24:04 UTC

Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented
Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.25-Released
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2026-03-19 16:09:06 UTC

Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux
With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/blender-51-benchmarks
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