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      OpenShot 3.5 Released As One Of Their "Biggest Releases" Ever

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March 2026

    OpenShot 3.5 hit the web today for this open-source non-linear video editor that describes the new version as one of their "biggest releases" ever in its 18+ year history...
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      Wine 11.5 Release Is Big: Syscall User Dispatch Feature Supported On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March 2026

    Wine 11.5 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release for this software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Most exciting with Wine 11.5 is the introduction of the Syscall User Dispatch feature on Linux...
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      Dell Upstreams Firmware For The XPS Snapdragon X Elite Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March 2026

    When it comes to using Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops on Linux, one of the big challenges have involved the need to extract the necessary firmware from the Windows 11 partition due to most vendors not providing the firmware in an easily redistributable and public form. The one exception has been the Lenovo ThinkPad with X1 Elite having upstream firmware in linux-firmware.git while now the Dell XPS model has joined the party too...
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      SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March 2026

    In addition to last night's Steam client beta with Steam Runtime container support for the client and that SteamRT3 client now a 64-bit build, Valve also released a big preview update to the forthcoming SteamOS 3.8. The SteamOS 3.8 preview release brings initial support for Steam Machine hardware, various handheld gaming device support improvements, various other Steam Deck updates, improved compatibility with newer Intel and AMD platforms, and its KDE Plasma desktop is now using Wayland by default...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Enhanced Performance For AMD Radeon Linux Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March 2026

    Earlier this month was a preview of the Ubuntu 26.04 performance benefits for NVIDIA Linux gaming while today's article is providing an early look at how the open-source AMD Radeon gaming experience is looking for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
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      Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    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...
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      Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    Simon Ser just released Wayland 1.25...