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The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux support in mind and various nuances around properly supporting them under Linux with different limitations from (X)Wayland to kernel driver handling...

For those that happen to have a Corsair Void headset or are looking for a new gaming headset this upcoming holiday season, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is expected to merge a new driver for these wired and wireless PC gaming headsets...

Inkscape 1.4 released on Sunday as the newest version of this cross-platform, open-source vector graphics editor...

Llamafile is the open-source project from Mozilla that allows distributing large language models as a single file that can work across operating systems, run on CPUs or GPUs, and all-around makes it much easier to distribute and run LLMs. This Mozilla Builders project ended out the weekend with a new feature release...

V tomto vydání Postřehů se podíváme na zneužívání chyby ve Windows, využití ChatGPT k psaní malwaru, ransomwarové skupiny zaměřené na Veeam Backup nebo únik 31 milionů údajů WaybackMachine.

Firma Samsung portuje operační systém Tizen na open-source architekturu RISC-V. Asahi Linux přináší sadu nástrojů pro hraní her na Mac M1/M2. Distribuce KDE neon přechází na základ Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Linux 6.12-rc3 is out today as expected as the newest weekly release candidate in working Linux 6.12 toward a stable release in November...

With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle...

As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix...

V neděli 13. října probíhá v Praze druhý den letošní konference LinuxDays. Podívejte se, jak vypadá akce, na které můžete navštívit přednášky, workshopy, stánky a potkat řadu nadšených chytrých lidí.

Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list...

Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported...

While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution...

Týden v KDE ve znamení ladění vydané Plasmy 6.2, Intel pracující na podpoře Arrow Lake a Xe2 pro Linux 6.13, Nouveau s NVK s podporou více her.

Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols...

Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the mainline Linux kernel. On Friday the fourth iteration of those patches for review were published as it hopefully is closing in on landing within the mainline kernel...

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...

V sobotu 12. října probíhá v Praze první den letošní konference LinuxDays. Podívejte se, jak vypadá akce, na které můžete navštívit přednášky, workshopy, stánky a potkat řadu nadšených chytrých lidí.

With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...

A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...