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Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 22:43
A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...

Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 21:38
Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor...

Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 21:13
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases...

Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 20:36
Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache...

Linux Looking To Finally Kill Off HIGHPTE Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 18:55
Linux kernel developers are evaluating the idea of removing HIGHPTE support from the Linux kernel due to its maintenance burden and just one ARM system currently using it...

The Newest DRM Display Driver Being Worked On For Linux: "Yhgch"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 18:32
The newest Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver that has been in the works for the Linux kernel is "Yhgch" from Inspur...

Intel Loses One Of Its NPU Driver Maintainers: "Time To Let Someone Else Deal With The NPU Bugs"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 17:54
Following the numerous Intel Linux developer departures last month from the company following layoffs at Intel and others deciding to voluntarily leave, there is another one to report today. One of the Intel IVPU accelerator driver maintainers for the Intel NPUs found in Core Ultra SoCs is departing the company...

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