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      Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...
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      Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...
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      GNOME 50 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...
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      System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...
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      Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...
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      Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...
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      Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.
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      NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream...
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      Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March 2026

    Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...