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Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.6-Released

A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/a-future-wine-release-could-use-zink-to-run-opengl-via-vulkan/

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-AIE-SIG-NVIDIA-AI

2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2D-CAD-Design-GNOME-2026

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mesa-26-0-4-open-source-graphics-drivers-released-for-linux/

Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.48

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-1-Linux-Patches-2026

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32

OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.1-Released

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Exclusive Preview Of System76's Completely Redesigned Thelio Desktop:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-new-thelio

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi

Proton Experimental brings fixes for REDLauncher, HELLDIVERS 2, Atelier Yumia, KILLER INN and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-redlauncher-helldivers-2-atelier-yumia-killer-inn-and-more/

D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.5-Released

NVIDIA 580.142 Production-Ready Linux Graphics Driver Released with Bug Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-142-production-ready-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-bug-fixes

NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.03-Linux

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Official-RHEL-Compat

Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-GreenBoost-NVIDIA

Mesa 26.0.2 arrives with more bug-fixes for Linux graphics drivers:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mesa-26-0-2-arrives-with-more-bug-fixes-for-linux-graphics-drivers/

Mesa driver developers discuss expanding profiles and driver tuning for specific apps and games:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mesa-driver-developers-discuss-expanding-profiles-and-driver-tuning-for-specific-apps-and-games/

OpenRazer 3.12 Released With Support For Newer Razer Products On Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Driver-Linux-1.30

New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synology-Microp-Linux-Driver

Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.7

Ubuntu's AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues - Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AppArmor-Security-Issues

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3

Fwupd 2.1.1 Linux Firmware Updater Released as a Massive Update:
https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-1-linux-firmware-updater-released-as-a-massive-update

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