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Last month a Fedora Linux change proposal was shared proposing that Fedora 45 be built with x86_64-v3 packages to complement the generic x86_64 (v1) packages currently being compiled. This has the possibility of providing greater performance out of packaged Fedora software but comes with the cost of greater burdens on web mirrors, QA / testing, and related infrastructure impact. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" decided today to wait on coming to a decision over this Fedora 45 change proposal...

Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too...

Pro menší firmy, které nepotřebují drahé a sofistikované cloudové prostředí někde v obrovském datacentru, existují některé zajímavé nástroje, které stačí jen správně zvolit a použít.

Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes si představíme nástroj pro správu dlouhodobé paměti AI agentů, vyzkoušíme moderní shell, řekneme si nástroji pro vývoj webových aplikací a podíváme se na vývojové prostředí pro AI agenty.

After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...

The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 3.1 as the first major spec update in six years and incorporating various features into the core spec for enhancing AI and HPC capabilities. As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending...

Používatelia linuxovej distribúcie EndeavourOS dostali nové inštalačné obrazy, ktorých súčasťou sú pravidelné aktualizácie softvéru a aj rôzne iné zmeny. Budúca verzia má predstaviť niekoľko väčších noviniek.

The Linux 7.1 development kernel that amounts to nearly 40 million lines has a lot of new features and changes in tow. While Linux 7.1 stable won't be out until mid-June, here is a look at the interesting changes coming with this next stable version of the Linux kernel.

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface...

The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing...

An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...

Six years after the debut of OpenCL 3.0 in provisional form, OpenCL 3.1 was announced today by The Khronos Group...

The Qt Group announced today the QML Profiler Skill for Agentic Development. This new "skill" can delegate code performance profiling to AI agents for 2D Qt Quick applications...

AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta released today as their next AlmaLinux 10 release coming down the pipe and derived from the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 state. Plus this AlmaLinux release continues adding more changes on their own...

Tvůrci distribuce Zorin OS oznámili milion stažení nejnovější verze. Rekord se přesně časově kryje s ukončením podpory Windows 10. Co to ale znamená doopravdy a jaký bude skutečný dopad na linuxový desktop?

Dnes se budeme zabývat třemi nástroji, které v ekosystému jazyka Python dokážou provádět statické typové kontroly: Mypy, Pyright a Ty. Liší se od sebe jak kvalitou výsledků, tak i přehledností či rychlostí.

NVIDIA compiler engineers are looking to develop a standalone tool that could be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase for generating AutoFDO profiles for consumption by GCC in turn for better benefiting from automatic feedback directed optimizations (FDO) in the name of better performance...

Less than one month after releasing ROCm 7.2.2, the ROCm 7.2.3 is now available with some minor improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute and AI stack...

For those eager to get their hands on Valve's new Steam Controller, the gaming controller is now shipping...

Omarchy as the Arch Linux based desktop distribution using the Hyprland compositor and led by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" is out with a big OS update...