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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

25. Červen 2025 - 19:15
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...

RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension

25. Červen 2025 - 14:00
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...

Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance

25. Červen 2025 - 13:10
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...

Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches

25. Červen 2025 - 11:20
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...

Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use

25. Červen 2025 - 11:05
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...

PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs

25. Červen 2025 - 10:42
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...

Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool

25. Červen 2025 - 1:27
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...

Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3

24. Červen 2025 - 19:05
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

24. Červen 2025 - 18:45
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

24. Červen 2025 - 16:30
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

24. Červen 2025 - 15:15
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations

24. Červen 2025 - 13:44
Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...

Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

24. Červen 2025 - 11:43
Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i686 under this F44 proposal...

Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space

24. Červen 2025 - 11:16
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2

24. Červen 2025 - 11:06
Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

24. Červen 2025 - 10:40
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators

24. Červen 2025 - 1:40
The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation...

IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler

23. Červen 2025 - 20:15
While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for "future" post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Intel Xeon 6300 vs. AMD EPYC 4005 SMT/HT Performance

23. Červen 2025 - 17:00
While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors. As the new AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors also support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) and can be found at the same core/thread count count as the flagship Xeon 6369P processor, it makes for an interesting look at comparing the SMT/HT performance impact and power efficiency. Here are some benchmarks showing the Xeon 6300 against the AMD EPYC 4005 in SMT performance.

Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API

23. Červen 2025 - 15:20
Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version...