Svobodný software

V sobotu 25. dubna proběhl v Bratislavě čtvrtý ročník konference OpenCamp, na které se mluvilo o otevřené náhradě za špatně fungující slinivku, základech optických sítí, komunikační síti Matrix a dalších tématech.

Na článek s popisem textových režimů čipu ANTIC v počítačích Atari dnes navážeme. Popíšeme si totiž grafické (rastrové) režimy a taktéž si ukážeme, jakým způsobem se řeší jedno z omezení ANTICu: možnost adresovat pouze 4kB video RAM.

The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs...

Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. Pricing in the US is at $99 USD...

After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD.

The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches...

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the availability of XWayland 24.1.11 that brings a few bug/regression fixes...

Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features...

One of the last feature pulls merged by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging Linux 7.1-rc1 this weekend were some power utility updates for those tools living within the kernel source tree...

Merged overnight to the latest Mesa graphics driver development code is enabling the VPE 2.0 engine to be found with future AMD Radeon GPUs...

D7VK as what began as an implementation of the Direct3D 7 API on top of the Vulkan API, based off DXVK as part of Steam Play (Proton) for D3D8 through D3D11 support, continues enhancing its legacy D3D API support that over time has stretched now from D3D7 to D3D3...

V tomto vydání seriálu se podíváme na vishingové útoky skupiny BlackFile, perzistentní malware na zařízeních Cisco, chybu v iOS umožňující obnovu smazaných dat a zneužívané zranitelnosti SharePointu.

Canonical zveřejnil harmonogram pro Ubuntu 26.10 „Stonking Stingray“. Debian má novou vedoucí projektu, indickou vývojářku Sruthi Chandran. Vyšlo prostředí LXQt 2.4 s dalšími vylepšeními pro Wayland.

The Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel was just released for concluding the Linux 7.1 merge window. A lot of new features are in tow for this next kernel version that will then be out as stable in mid-June...

The April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of refinements, new hardware support, and other polishing...

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out later today for closing the Linux 7.1 merge window, I was curious if all the code removals would lead to a negative change in line count over Linux 7.0. The removals were not enough and Linux 7.1 Git is fast approaching 40 million lines...

Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks...

A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years...

The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes...

Týden v KDE a zejména opravy pro Plasmu 6.6.5, týden v GNOME a libadwaita pro Android. Fwupd 2.1.2 s podporou dalšího hardwaru, GCC zřizuje pracovní skupinu pro posouzení politiky kolem AI/LLM.