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Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 18:25
RADV Radeon Vulkan driver developers on Valve's Linux graphics team are evaluating the idea of greater use of per-game/app profiles within this open-source driver and for Mesa drivers at large. Currently for Mesa drivers with DriConf there is the ability to provide per-game/app workarounds while the consideration now is extending that to allow for more per-game optimizations...

exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 18:08
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver...

Fedora 44 Beta Released With Better KDE Experience, Many Upgrades

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 17:51
The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April...

FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 08:30
FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...

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