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📰Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Features-Early-Look #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026 #firefox#intel#linux#ubuntu

📰Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2026.1-Released #opensource#intel

📰 Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Mesa-Shader-Compiler #linux#opensource#intel

📰 Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many. 🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintainers-are-following-through-on-removing-intel-486-support/ #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Linux-7.1-Zstd #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Arch-Based Omarchy 3.5 Brings Full Intel Panther Lake Support Arch-based Omarchy 3.5 adds Intel Panther Lake support with a patched Linux kernel 6.19, Dell XPS 2026 fixes, and new features. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-3-5-brings-full-intel-panther-lake-support/ #linux#arch#kernel#intel

📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32 #linux#kernel#intel

📰 CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-panther-lake #linux#arch#ubuntu#intel

📰 Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q1-2026-Highlights #linux#intel

📰 Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week's drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.1-Panel-Replay #linux#intel

📰 Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Gen6-Wireless-Mode #linux#intel#kernel