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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 • 11:13

    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 • 10:50

    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 • 10:26

    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 • 10:11

    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 • 13 hours 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 • 13 hours 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...
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      Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process scheduling subsystem...
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      Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors...
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      AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline...