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While GTK 4.0 has been released, there still is major work to look forward to with future GTK4 releases. One area seeing recent and ongoing improvements is with the toolkit's OpenGL renderer...

With the upcoming GCC 11 compiler release the GNU compiler's just-in-time (JIT) library is no longer considered to be of alpha quality...

Two years and nine patches later, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17 is out as the latest X.Org driver update for this open-source NVIDIA driver component...

[6 minut čtení] GhostBSD 21.01.15, Paramount+ v březnu, Linux 5.12 a Nintendo 64, Chrome 89 a AV1 kodér, KDE Plasma 5.21 Beta, Ubuntu 21.04 s GNOME 3.38, kevlarová Leica M10, Snapdragon 870 5G, Intel Optane končí. První letošní verze uživatelsky přívětivé variace na FreeBSD je na světě. Tvůrci tentokrát soustředili síly na pročištění systému, což mimo jiné znamená odstranění kancelářského balíku LibreOffice a komunikátor Telegram z výchozího výběru balíků pro instalaci systému. Stalo se tak kvůli pracím na podpoře ZFS RW, kde lze nyní konfiguraci se ZFS provozovat i na strojích se 4 GB RAM.

Voltage, temperature, and fan speed reporting among desktop motherboards under Linux remains one of the unfortunate areas even in 2021... Many SIO ICs remain publicly undocumented and the Linux driver support is often left up to the community and usually through reverse-engineering. Thus the mainline Linux kernel support is left to suffer especially among newer desktop motherboards. At least for Linux 5.12 some ASRock motherboards will begin seeing their voltage/temperature reporting now function...

For those interested in Godot as the premiere open-source 2D/3D game engine or just looking for some interesting technical talks to enjoy this weekend, the first GodotCon Online is today...

One of many improvements we have been looking forward to with GNOME 40 is Mutter now having a separate input thread with its native back-end for Wayland...

In addition to shipping the Plasma 5.21 beta this week, KDE developers were very active in not only working out fixes for next month's Plasma 5.21 desktop but also other improvements to KDE applications...

Adding to the list of big ticket changes for GNOME 40 is Mutter now supporting atomic mode-setting...

Pyston started out as a fork of CPython and was very promising during its early days as a Dropbox project for delivering on high performance Python. Its performance was great but in 2017 Dropbox stopped supporting it. Then at the end of 2020, Pyston reappeared and Pyston 2.0 promoted ~20% faster performance than Python 3.8. Pyston 2.x was developed by many of the original developers from Dropbox now out working on their own firm...

Pandemické vlny zřejmě nemají žádnou definici. Jde vlastně jen o shodu vlády, médií, lidu, že tomuhle kopečku na grafu budeme nějak říkat. Pojmenování vyvolává dojem, že jsme něco poznali a provedli nějakou akci.

With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa on a nice upward trajectory with most recently now having the backing of a Valve contract developer and a focus on getting the backlog of patches to this Gallium3D code upstreamed, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at where the performance currently stands when using Zink atop the RADV Vulkan driver compared to using the native RadeonSI driver with this round of testing from a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.

The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...

It's taken nearly twenty five years but the mainline Linux kernel this year will be able to boot on the Nintendo 64 game console... It's looking like the Nintendo 64 support will be merged with the upcoming Linux 5.12 kernel...

New feature material for Linux 5.12 continues getting ready ahead of the merge window opening in February to formally kick off the cycle...

In addition to Oracle's GraalVM 21.0 being released this week, the Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 v0.24 as the newest feature release for their high performance JVM...

Now that Chrome 88 released, attention is turning to Chrome 89 of which an interesting technical change is the enabling of AV1 encode support within the web browser...

The Apache Software Foundation announced on Thursday that Apache Superset reached "top-level" status...

The oneAPI Level Zero repository consisting of the Level Zero API headers, Level Zero loader, and validation layer have reached version 1.1...

Pripravované vydanie linuxovej distribúcie Ubuntu 21.04 príde so staršou, hoci stále aktuálnou verziou desktopového prostredia GNOME 3.38 a GTK 3. Vývojári chcú získať viac času do vydania Ubuntu 21.10.