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Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 18:34
Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions...

Mageia 10 Beta Now Available For Those Who Reminisce About Mandrake Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 18:30
It's been nearly three years since the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to the glorious Mandrake Linux. Following the Mageia 10 alpha release back in January, Mageia 10 beta builds are now available...

Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 18:11
Sent out today was the latest weekly round of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window that is set to happen in mid-to-late April...

Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 17:56
An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements...

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Google News - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 11:15
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Friday Five — March 20, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 08:00
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Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 05:21
Well, here's an unexpected surprise... A new version of the Linux kernel patches for DXGKRNL were posted today for that DirectX kernel driver that began a few years ago for supporting Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) use-cases. This comes four years to the month after the prior version was posted and without much excitement for getting it into the mainline Linux kernel...

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