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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...

Thunderbird Looks To Finalize Its Exchange Support, Refresh The Calendar UI

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 03:42
Thunderbird announced today the availability of their public roadmaps where they are making it easier for end-users to comprehend what they are currently working on for this mail client not only for the desktop builds but also their Android and iOS versions too...

AMD Preps More GFX12.1 Enablement For Linux 7.1, Initial VCN 5.0.2 & JPEG 5.0.2 IP

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 03:25
AMD today sent out another batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window...

Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 00:20
Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25...

Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2026 - 00:05
With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.

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