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      Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    Following last month's soft freeze for Debian 12 "Bookworm", this popular Linux distribution is now in its hard freeze until its release time...
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      The First Bits Of Wine's Wayland Driver Were Merged

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    The first code has landed into Wine Git as part of the multi-year effort creating a Wayland driver for Wine so that the Windows games/applications running via Wine can enjoy native Wayland support. This isn't yet usable for end-users/gamers but is the early implementation with more parts to follow...
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      Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    Valve today started their first-ever Steam Spring Sale that runs through next week. In addition to sales on games, this is the first time Valve has offered the Steam Deck at a discounted price...
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      Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    AWS released Amazon Linux 2023 "AL2023" as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is available to Amazon EC2 customers...
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      Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    Another set of drm-misc-next patches were submitted today for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off this spring...
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      AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 Released With Various Fixes, TMZ For RDNA2 & Newer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    It's been nearly one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's latest open-source Vulkan driver code drop while today it was replaced by AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 as what will likely be their last Vulkan driver update for the quarter...
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      Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers...
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      NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    A NVIDIA engineer has opened up a merge request to improve the wlroots Wayland library so compositors based on it can enjoy better gaming performance for dual-GPU systems, namely around laptops sporting a discrete NVIDIA GPU but can help other GPU hardware/drivers too...
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      Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

    Last month Qualcomm published updated patches for their Cloud AI 100 kernel driver to support this inference accelerator. The Qualcomm engineers said at the time that their user-space driver and associated compiler would be published shortly. That panned out and the user-space portion of this open-source AI inference stack was recently published...