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Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 1:33 p.m. | Original

Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. Pricing in the US is at $99 USD.

After announcing the Steam Controller alongside the Steam Machine and Steam Frame back in November, the first of those devices is now shipping: the new Steam Controller will be available starting on 4 May at 10:00 AM PST. This Linux / Windows / macOS controller also works with the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

The Steam Controller pricing is $99 USD

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 11:06 a.m. | Original

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.

Up for review and performance benchmarking under Linux today is the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus as the other new "Arrow Lake Refresh" processor recently launched by Intel. Due to only receiving

With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 9:27 a.m. | Original

The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches.

While there has been mainline Linux kernel support for real-time (RT) on x86/x86_64, ARM64 (AArch64), and RISC-V since Linux 6.12 and LoongArch RT since Linux 6.13 , only now is the ARM (non-

XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 8:59 a.m. | Original

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the availability of XWayland 24.1.11 that brings a few bug/regression fixes.

XWayland 24.1.10 just came earlier this month for addressing the latest batch of X.Org Server / XWayland security issues while now XWayland 24.1.11 is ready with a handful of bug/regression fixes. This work includes two possible crash fixes and other issues now resolved:

* Avoids spurious focus changes with KDE when listening for mouse

Linux 7.1 Adds SoC Slider Support To x86_energy_perf_policy Utility

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 6:27 a.m. | Original

One of the last feature pulls merged by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging Linux 7.1-rc1 this weekend were some power utility updates for those tools living within the kernel source tree.

The x86_energy_perf_policy utility that is part of the Linux kernel for managing energy and performance policies was updated as part of this late merge for Linux 7.1. With the x86_energy_perf_policy utility there is now support for reading and writing SoC slider parameters, which

AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 6:10 a.m. | Original

Merged overnight to the latest Mesa graphics driver development code is enabling the VPE 2.0 engine to be found with future AMD Radeon GPUs.

It's been a few years now since AMD introduced the VPE engine with RDNA 3.5 refresh hardware as a a new general purpose copy engine offering various scaling and transform features. This video processing engine can allow for energy efficient HDR conversions, scaling, tone and gamut-mapping, and more.

Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, 5:55 a.m. | Original

Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features.

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical wrote a post on the Ubuntu Discourse today outlining the future of AI in Ubuntu. Canonical is ramping up their AI push ofr Ubuntu that will begin with enhancing existing OS functionality via AI models running in the background to more "AI native" features further down the development roadmap.

D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API

Phoronix | April 27, 2026, midnight | Original

D7VK as what began as an implementation of the Direct3D 7 API on top of the Vulkan API, based off DXVK as part of Steam Play (Proton) for D3D8 through D3D11 support, continues enhancing its legacy D3D API support that over time has stretched now from D3D7 to D3D3.

Released this weekend was D7VK v1.8 that now has proper support for ProcessVertices calls implemented on the CPU, which in turn

Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More

Phoronix | April 26, 2026, 5:37 p.m. | Original

The Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel was just released for concluding the Linux 7.1 merge window. A lot of new features are in tow for this next kernel version that will then be out as stable in mid-June.

Among the exciting changes with Linux 7.1 are the new NTFS driver that aims to be the superior open-source NTFS kernel driver option, 12 new SoCs are supported by this kernel version, new Lenovo Legion Go drivers, Intel QAT Zstd support, more AMD Zen

CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler

Phoronix | April 26, 2026, 12:50 p.m. | Original

The April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of refinements, new hardware support, and other polishing.

CachyOS is now making use of the app Shelly as its default GUI package manager in place of Octopi. Shelly is a " modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager " and further described via its GitHub repository for those interested in this Arch Linux GUI package manager.

CachyOS also now supports DNS-over-HTTPS for better privacy, improved vRAM management toggle,

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