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📰 Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-26.2-Memory-Pressure #intel#kernel#linux

📰 Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-2026-Highlights #fedora#intel#kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what's shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-lunar-lake-ubuntu-2604 #intel#linux#ubuntu

📰 Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP Libcamera 0.7.1 released on Tuesday as the newest feature release for this open-source library for camera image signal processors (ISPs) that has grown of importance for the likes of Raspberry Pi and Chrome OS and modern desktop Linux distributions with modern laptop hardware like recent Intel Core (Ultra) laptops... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/libcamera-0.7.1-Released #intel#linux#opensource#raspberry

📰 Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-5-250k-plus #intel#linux

📰 LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released #amd#intel#linux#opensource

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Intel-Overlay #intel#kde#plasma

📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers #amd#intel#linux

📰 Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2026Q1 #intel#linux#opensource

📰 Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1 In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-Linux-7.1 #intel#kernel#linux

📰 Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs #intel#kernel#linux

📰 Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1 As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486 #intel#kernel#linux