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AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 19:36
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...

3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 18:50
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...

2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 18:26
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...

KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 18:11
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...

linux-gaming - Thurrott.com

Google News - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 10:57
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linux-doom - Thurrott.com

Google News - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 10:57
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linux-collections - Thurrott.com

Google News - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 10:57
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OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2026 - 07:34
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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