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The long-awaited OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 distribution update has set sail this weekend...

Making KDE's Baloo file indexing/searching framework really efficient appears to be a never-ending task. Baloo is already much less bloated recently than it's been hungry for resources in the past and with KDE Frameworks 5.60 will be slightly more fit...

For those wondering how Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux is comparing to the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, here are a number of benchmarks on the same Intel Core i7 8700K in seeing how these rolling-release distros are competing for summer 2019...

[3 minuty čtení] FreeBSD 11.3-RC1, Japonsko zpřísňuje pravidla pro provozování dronů, ASMedia dokončí návrhy čipů pro PCIe 4.0 ještě letos, Lightworks 14.6 stále uzavřený. Zatímco FreeBSD 12.0 je na světě už více než půl roku, konzervativnější uživatelé setrvávající u předchozí řady 11 mohou pomalu vyhlížet další aktualizační vydání. FreeBSD 11.3 je ve stádiu prvního kandidáta na ostrou verzi, kdy už se jen ladí poslední objevené chybičky.

In time for those planning to spend some time this weekend gaming, DXVK lead developer Philip Rebohle announced the release of DXVK 1.2.2 that will hopefully soon be integrated as part of a Proton update for Steam Play but right now can be built from source...

In hoping to catch more bugs quickly, systemd now has continuous fuzzing integration via the new "Fuzzit" platform that provides continuous fuzzing as a service...

The Intel open-source/Linux compute stack has added Comet Lake support along with more Icelake PCI IDs in its latest round-up...

It was nearly a decade ago the high-end, commercial video software editing solution Lightworks announced they would be going open-source but to this day that milestone has yet to be materialized. Lightworks though does continue advancing with their v14.6 release on the horizon and at least their added Linux support continues to be expanded upon...

The past few years there's been the me_cleaner software for disabling and stripping parts of Intel's Management Engine for soft-disabling the notorious bit on modern Intel boards. ME_Cleaner has been making much progress and now there is work pending for being able to disable the newer Management Engine 12 found on more recent Intel motherboards...

FreeBSD 11.3 is lining up for release in July while this weekend the first release candidate is available for testing...

Spousta z nás si určitě klade otázku, existují-li alternativní vesmíry. Jaké asi jsou? Liší se moc od toho našeho? Čekaly by v nich na nás létající stonožky nebo třeba mluvící lednice?

Released at the end of May was the huge ZFS On Linux 0.8 release with many new features like native encryption, TRIM/discard support for SSDs, device removal, Python 3 compatibility with its tooling, pool check-points, and much more. Out today is now the first maintenance release following that big release...

Since the release of WSL2 as a Windows 10 Insider Preview update this week, we've been putting the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 under some benchmarks compared to WSL1 and bare metal Linux. While WSL2 has improved the I/O performance thanks to the new Hyper-V-based virtualization approach employed by WSL2, the performance has regressed in other areas for running Linux binaries on Windows 10. Here are our preliminary benchmark results.

At the start of May there were the initial patches out of AMD for implementing a better runtime linker in its graphics stack. That code has now been merged into Mesa 19.2 and is being used by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Wacom's second-generation Intuos Pro Small digital drawing tablet will be supported by the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...

To be exposed via /proc/[pid]/arch_status is a new interface for exposing architectural-specific information for a given Linux process...

To date the open-source AMD "Navi" graphics code inside their LLVM compiler back-end has been focused on the "GFX1010" target but now it's been branched out to also GFX1011 and GFX1012...

The team maintaining MoltenVK for allowing a majority of the Vulkan API to function atop Apple's Metal drivers for macOS/iOS have issued their first big update in two months...

Following last week's release of Chrome 75, Google today issued the first public beta for the Chrome 76 web-browser...

[3 minuty čtení] Když dnes zavítáte na Distrowatch, jeho žebříčku vévodí jakýsi MX Linux, s návštěvností trojnásobnou oproti Ubuntu. Co vlastně tato distribuce nabízí, čím zaujme a proč byste ji měli chtít? O současné verzi MX Linuxu, tedy 18.3, jsme vás informovali před dvěma týdny. Ve zkratce lze říci, že jde o distribuci postavenou na základech Debianu, která ale jde trochu jiným směrem než Ubuntu, resp. myriády jeho klonů. Jde o jakýsi hybrid vzešlý z komunit kolem antiX Linuxu a MEPIS Linuxu.