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      Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...
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      Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...
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      Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...
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      AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...
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      3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...
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      2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design tool...
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      KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...
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      OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    OpenRazer 3.12 released in mid-March as the latest feature update to these open-source drivers for Razer hardware on Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.12.1 for enabling two more Razer products on Linux plus shipping a couple fixes...
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      Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...