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ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 19:10
Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to this open-source NVIDIA driver stack...

Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 18:57
Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...

AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 18:44
AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates...

GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 18:30
Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...

Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 09:17
Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...

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