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Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:57
Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android...

KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:38
KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Now Exposes Mesh Shader Support

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:33
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed support for mesh shaders within Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver...

GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:20
GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default...

debauit Announced As Debian Source Package Auditor

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 05:48
Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages...

NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 02:42
Less than a week after their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems...

Panther Lake Tuning For The Intel Idle Driver In Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 01:25
While the Linux support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake is largely in good shape as shown in my numerous articles over the past month and a half, there are occasional missing remnants landing in the kernel. As the latest example, or the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel, the unified Panther Lake C-States table is being added for the Intel Idle driver...

Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Advances Past RFC Stage

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 00:18
After going through five rounds of review under a Request For Comments (RFC) flag, today the latest round of Kernel API Specification Framework patches were sent out with the RFC flag removed...

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