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Earlier this year OpenPrinting took over development of the CUPS print server with Apple no longer interested in handling the future development of this open-source Linux/macOS/Unix/Solaris print server. Out this week is CUPS 2.4 as the first major release under the guidance of OpenPrinting...

Dnes si představíme nástroj pro automatizaci workflow, budeme spravovat hesla z GUI nebo CLI, vytvoříme úplný uzel v Lightning Network síti a nakonec si představíme hudební streamovací platformu postavenou na blockchainu.

Early patches providing for IO_uring zero-copy send support for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem is looking extremely promising for greater throughput...

Amazon Web Services today shared that C7g instances are coming powered by Graviton3, their next-gen in-house AArch64 processors...

Following all the work carried out by Mike Blumenkrantz (Valve) and others, the Mesa Zink code is ending the year in terrific and very capable shape for OpenGL running atop the Vulkan API. Here is a look at where things currently stand with mainline Mesa for Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan compared to the native RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver.

With the graphics driver support for Alder Lake S-series in good shape with Linux 5.16 and the Alder Lake P-series support also coming together for upcoming ADL-based laptops, next up is the Alder Lake N enablement happening for Linux...

Sent out today was the fifth revision to AMD's new "amd-pstate" kernel driver focused on providing enhanced CPU frequency controls for Linux systems...

Last month we reported on progress for porting the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver to Haiku, the BeOS-inspired open-source operating system. Now in ending out November they not only have RADV running but also working with Gallium3D's Zink for offering OpenGL acceleration over Vulkan...

KDE developer Nate Graham is known for his weekly (excellent) development summaries and driving many usability improvements and other refinements to the KDE desktop in recent years. Nate has written a new opinion piece arguing for more simplicity by default to broaden the desktop's appeal to more novice computer users with limited skills...

While there was the Libre RISC-V GPU effort aiming to provide an open-source GPU accelerator based on RISC-V, it ultimately turned into Libre-SOC with a focus now on the POWER ISA. Meanwhile Vortex is continuing to mature as an open-source, FPGA-based RISC-V GPGPU processor...

Valve has provided an updated developer-focused "frequently asked questions" area stemming from community questions during the recent Steam Deck developer event...

Šifrovaná komunikace může posloužit pro ukrytí škodlivé komunikace před monitorovacími a bezpečnostními systémy. To s sebou přináší větší výzvy spojené s monitorováním a detekcí na koncových zařízeních, tedy u uživatelů i služeb.

Dnes se zaměříme na některé pokročilejší vlastnosti knihovny XlsxWriter: na vytváření sloučených buněk, podmíněné formáty buněk, definovaná jména buněk, podporu pro tvorbu automatických filtrů atd.

With a few weeks having passed since the Fedora 35 debut, more feature work and planning around next spring's Fedora 36 are underway...

As part of David Howells of Red Hat long-term work on improving the caching code used by network file-systems, he today posted a big patch series rewriting the fscache and cachefiles code as the latest significant step on that adventure...

CodeWeavers is kicking off the new week by releasing CrossOver 21.1 for Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS users wanting to enjoy Windows games and applications...

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and FWUPD on their great upward trajectory has in recent times been expanding beyond their initial focus of desktop/laptop hardware to supporting more server platforms for firmware updating. The latest feature driven by their growing server interests is "best known configuration" handling for where there are multiple independently-versioned firmware packages for a given system and may be support recommendations or potential version conflicts between the the different firmware packages...

Last week Amazon Web Services released Amazon Linux 2022 in preview form and since then I've been trying out their new cloud-optimized Linux distribution. It's been working out well on AWS (to no surprise) but also great was the level of performance provided by this now-Fedora-based distribution.

Podíváme se na jednu nepovedenou záplatu, mrkneme se na novou taktiku, kterou útočníci prodlužují dobu trvanlivosti phishingové stránky, na skrytý mobilní spyware, na zneužívání zranitelnosti ProxyShell nebo vzestup malware Flubot.

Nadcházející verze Amazon Linuxu bude postavená na Fedoře. Vyšla první beta verze operačního systému airyxOS, který se snaží o kompatibilitu s macOS. Nejnovější verze nejstarší distribuce Slackware Linux 15 se blíží k dokončení.