Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 24 March 2026 at 08:14 PM EDT. 13 Comments Intel's…
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Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026
…5 Comments Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped…
Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns
…the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF_ALG due to growing security concerns. Zero-copy support is great for better performance and efficiency, but in kernel space…
AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute Review
…PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 7 May 2026 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 1 of 1 . 4…
Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
…This library is used by games from Counter-Strike to Dota 2 and since its public open-source drop has been picked up elsewhere. Finally after going nearly four years without a…
Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution
…Safetensors is a file format for storing and loading model weights while avoiding the risk of arbitrary code execution and security shortcomings of other formats like Pickle while also offering better performance…
LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads
…In the issue ticket opened last year in seeing Zstd-compressed releases, the LLVM Linux x64 build as a XZ package was 1577MB but dropped to 1401MB when using Zstd compression. The…
KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
…KMSCON 10.0 also now properly clears the cursor plane when dropping the master DRM connection during VT hand-off, handling bitmap fonts with variable widths, and a variety of other code…
Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More
…There is also a lot of code removal include a number of old network drivers, dropping of Russia's Baikal CPU support, clearing out some old PCMCIA drivers, and beginning to phase…
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old 'potato' hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be…