Svobodný software

Používatelia linuxovej distribúcie Debian majú dostupné nové inštalačné obrazy s aktualizáciami softvérových balíčkov, ktoré pridávajú opravy chýb a dôležité záplaty pre odhalené bezpečnostné zraniteľnosti.

Canonical's Launchpad service that is closely aligned with the Ubuntu project is finally deprecating code imports from CVS and Subversion repositories that go through the defunct Bazaar...

Released just over one month ago was the general availability of CUDA !3.0 while out this week is CUDA 13.0 Update 1 as the first incremental step forward to CUDA 13...

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle is likely to see the new "gpd-fan" driver merged as a hardware monitoring driver for the increasing number of GPD gaming handheld devices...

The long-in-development web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer used by Fedora (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) continues maturing well and expanding its usage before eventually seeing the Anaconda GTK-based UI deprecated in the future...

A change proposal has been filed to mitigate additional kernel vulnerabilities/attacks via additional kernel tuning by default...

KDE Plasma 6.4.5 is out today as the newest monthly point release for the current Plasma 6.4 desktop series. Making this month's Plasma 6 point release notable are a number of KWin compositor fixes...

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) downstream AlmaLinux 10 is further distinguishing itself from alternatives by enabling its CRB repository by default. This will be rolling out as an update to AlmaLinux 10.0 and as part of the upcoming AlmaLinux 10.1 point release...

Článek o tom, jak jsem přehodnotil svůj přístup k nešifrované komunikaci a proč dávám přednost end-to-end šifrování. V takové situaci totiž nemusíte provozovateli zdaleka tolik důvěřovat, že vaše data nevydá.

Programátoři, zabývající se generativní AI či zpracováním přirozeného jazyka, se často setkávají s vektory obsahujícími prvky typu half float (FP16). Vysvětlíme si, jak se s těmito hodnotami pracuje na platformě AArch64.

A new set of Linux kernel patches posted today work to improve the nested VMX performance for benefiting Intel processors making use of KVM virtualization...

Microsoft is preparing to ship Windows 11 25H2 as their newest incremental update to their operating system. Windows 11 25H2 is currently available via their preview channel in advance of the formal public release in October. With Canonical also putting the finishing touches on their Ubuntu 25.10 release also due for a stable release in October, here are some benchmarks looking at how those competing operating systems are fairing in various CPU benchmarks on the same hardware.

While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.Org Server by default, the modern KDE Plasma 6 desktop can in fact work fine on Wayland under FreeBSD 14 and the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0 release...

Thanks to work by open-source Intel software engineers over the past few months, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to add support for Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" for supporting next-generation, higher-resolution laptop web cameras...

The XFS file-system is ready to declare their online file-system checking "fsck" support in good enough shape for enabling by default in new kernel builds. Plus other XFS alterations ahead of Linux 6.18 that is expected to be this year's LTS kernel version...

A patch series that has been in development for a while now introduces the concept of "sheaves" for an opt-in, per-CPU and array-based caching layer for the SLUB kernel allocator. It looks like the sheaves patches are likely to be introduced for the Linux 6.18 kernel if no objections are raised...

A new AMD driver set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle barring any last minute problems is a TRNG driver for Versal SoCs...

Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September...

Podíváme se na nejsilnější zaznamenaný DDoS útok, jak Grok AI pomáhá se šířením škodlivých odkazů, narušení aktivit APT29 společností Amazon, novou odměnu za informace o ruských hackerech a zero-day v routerech TP-Link.

Vyšla první alfa verze KDE Linuxu, neměnného systému od tvůrců prostředí KDE Plasma. Nezávisle vyvíjená linuxová distribuce AerynOS zavádí sady balíčků a přidává prostředí KDE. Podpora pro openSUSE Leap 15.x byla prodloužena.