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Dnes přišla na svět nová verze známého hypervizoru a emulátoru pro hardwarovou a softwarovou virtualizaci QEMU.

Going back several years one of our most favorite open-source games to monitor was the Unvanquished game project with its roots in the Tremulous game and built off the Daemon Engine that is a distant fork to ioquake3 by way of the also once very promising ET: XreaL work...

QEMU 2.12 is now officially available as the latest stable feature update to this important component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Back in February was the controversial announcement that Canonical would begin offering a hardware/software survey for Ubuntu installations to premiere with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This week while running some benchmarks of the effectively final release of Bionic Beaver, I noticed they finally got the feature exposed to users. Here's what it looks like and some of the hardware and software information detailed in these opt-out reports to Canonical.

Released yesterday was version 0.11 of the XDG Desktop Portal and with this release comes initial support for Snap packages...

This morning I wrote about GCC 8 being branched and development on the master branch now being open for GCC 9.0. The GCC 8.1 release candidate has now been issued with the official release perhaps coming next week...

Last week I wrote about the NetBSD 8.0 RC1 images being available and the changes coming in this big update to this popular BSD platform. This morning that official NetBSD 8.0 RC1 announcement was issued...

DragonFlyBSD has implemented a portion of the Linux IRQ subsystem within its kernel...

This year Intel open-sourced their "NEO" OpenCL compute stack included a new compute runtime, a new LLVM/Clang-based compiler, makes use of the Intel Graphics Memory Management Library (GMMLIB), etc. While we don't hear too much from the NEO effort on an ongoing basis, their OpenCL 2.1 support for recent hardware generations is now to production quality...

The GNU Compiler Collection 8 stable release (GCC 8.1) is almost ready to make its debut...

Following Google announcing their GSoC 2018 participants, the Outreachy program to help support women and other under-represented groups in tech announced their summer 2018 interns...

Adam Jackson of Red Hat today announced the X.Org Server 1.20 Release Candidate 5, which he believes will be the last test release before going gold. Most excitingly about this new release candidate is the merged support for allowing the NVIDIA proprietary driver to work with XWayland...

[11 minut čtení] V sobotu 21. dubna se v Bratislavě konal první ročník konference OpenCamp, která se zabývala otevřeným software, technologiemi a daty. Hovořilo se o bezpečnosti, svobodné společnosti i provozu vlastního datacentra. První ročník nově založené konference Bratislava OpenCamp navázal na tradiční slovenské OSS Víkendy, které se časem vyčerpaly a původní organizátoři chtěli předat štafetu někomu dalšímu. Chopili se jí Ľubor Jurena a Marek Galiński, kteří se rozhodli začít znovu budovat otevřenou komunitu na Slovensku.

[1 minuta čtení] Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes se podíváme na minimalistický editor, vyzkoušíme launcher Tor Browseru, budeme zapisovat poznámky do deníku a seznámíme se s pomocníkem pro přenos souborů v LAN. Howl je minimalistický editor postavený na LuaJIT runtimu a plně programovatelný s využitím jazyka Lua nebo Moonscript. Editor je zaměřen na ovládání z klávesnice, nabízí několik barevných variant a je spustitelný na Linuxu, FreeBSD a OpenBSD. Není vyloučena možnost portování i na ostatní operační systémy.

Fedora Workstation 28 is shaping up to be another compelling update for those that are fans of this bleeding-edge Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution. I've been running Fedora Workstation 28 snapshots on a few laptops and test machines here and am quite happy with how it's shaped up as another Fedora release that delivers not only the latest features, but doing so in a seemingly sane and stable manner: I haven't encountered any problems unlike some of the past notorious Fedora releases from years ago. Overall, I am quite excited for next month's Fedora 28 release and will be upgrading my main production system to it...

With last week's initial launch-day Linux benchmarks of the Ryzen 5 2600X / Ryzen 7 2700X some found the Linux performance to be lower than Windows. While the root cause is undetermined, a BIOS/AGESA update does appear to help the Linux performance significantly at least with the motherboard where I've been doing most of my tests with the Ryzen 7 2700X. Here are the latest benchmark numbers.

Google has announced the accepted student projects for this year's Google Summer of Code. As usual, there is an interesting mix of open-source software projects across the hundreds (or rather thousands) of applicants. Here's a look at the most interesting initiatives we found when going through the list...

In addition to Purism working on their GNOME-based interface with their PureOS GNU/Linux on their upcoming Librem 5 smartphone as well as supporting KDE Plasma Mobile as another option, they will also be supporting the UBPorts community Ubuntu Touch work on this privacy-minded Linux smartphone...

Following Oracle offloading Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and then renaming the project to Jakarta EE, we now know more about the future of this Java Enterprise Edition...

The Qt Company had been working on performance improvements for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) as part of the Qt 5.9 LTS cycle and continuing through with the ongoing long-term support point releases, and that work is paying off...