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Mozilla WebThings is what was formerly known as "Project Things" while serving as an experiment around a platform for IoT devices on the web...

KDE Applications 19.04 is now officially out as the first update of 2019 for this collection of prominent KDE desktop programs...

The Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" has been officially released as the latest non-LTS, six-month installment to Ubuntu Linux...

Leading up to the Ubuntu 19.04 release, several premium supporters requested fresh results for seeing the X.Org vs. Wayland performance overhead for gaming, how GNOME Shell vs. KDE Plasma is performing for current AMD Linux gaming, and related desktop comparison graphics/gaming metrics. Here are such benchmarks run from the Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" while benchmarking GNOME Shell both with X.Org and Wayland, Xfce, MATE, Budgie, KDE Plasma, LXQt, and Openbox.

On Wednesday night Valve issued their latest stable Steam client update and carries much of the work we've seen out of their recent beta releases...

Intel's open-source developers sent in another pull request this morning to DRM-Next of additional feature material they are planning on having in the upcoming Linux 5.2 kernel...

While it may not seem like a big release with Xfce 4.14 having yet to materialize, the Xubuntu developers have been doing a fine job providing a nice upgrade with Xubuntu 19.04 for those appreciating a lightweight, GTK-based desktop environment built around Ubuntu...

Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD developers maintaining OpenSSH today unveiled OpenSSH 8.0...

SQLite 3.28 is now the latest version of this widely-used, embed-friendly cross-platform database library...

We haven't been seeing as much GLAMOR activity these days but then again the pace of X.Org Server development has certainly slowed up in recent years. GLAMOR as a reminder allows for X.Org Server 2D acceleration to happen in a generic manner via OpenGL / GLES and has been a common area for improvement...

Medzi jednu z distribúcií, ktoré sa snažia pomôcť užívateľom prechádzajúcim z operačného systému Windows na Linux, patrí Linux Lite.

While missing the GNOME 3.32.1 point release that shipped last week, GNOME Shell and Mutter today experienced their 3.32.1 updates with a variety of fixes...

Valgrind 3.15 has been released, the programming utility famous for catching memory leaks and helping with memory debugging/profiling...

[4 minuty čtení] Linuxová distribuce CentOS slaví 15 let existence. Za tu dobu se změnilo prakticky vše, nezůstal na kameni kámen a přesto se CentOS i dnes řadí mezi nejpoužívanější. Nebo právě proto? U příležitosti 15. výročí byl krátce vyzpovídán „otec (spolu)zakladatel“ toho, co později dostalo název CentOS, pan Greg Kurtzer. Povídání si můžete pustit na videu, my si z něj přetlumočíme hlavní myšlenky. Na projektu CentOS pracoval do roku 2005.

[43 minut čtení] V seriálu o message brokerech a k nim přidružených technologiích jsme se mj. seznámili i s knihovnou ZeroMQ. Ideovým následovníkem této knihovny je projekt nazvaný nanomsg s jehož základními možnostmi se seznámíme v dnešním článku. 1. Implementace různých komunikačních strategií s využitím knihovny nanomsg

The ZFS On Linux (ZoL) crew released version 0.8-RC4 of their Linux file-system port today as the newest pre-release for this massive feature update...

GentooLTO is a configuration overlay for Gentoo's overlay to make it easy to enable Link Time Optimizations (LTO) and other compiler optimizations for enabling better performance out of the Gentoo packages. GentooLTO appears to be inspired in part by the likes of Clear Linux who employ LTO and other compiler optimization techniques like AutoFDO for yielding better performance than what is conventionally shipped by Linux distributions. The GentooLTO developers and users have wrapped up their survey looking at how practical this overlay configuration is on the massive Portage collection...

For those wondering how the Linux smartphone stack is shaping up for Purism's long-awaited Librem 5 smartphone that is currently aiming to ship in Q3, the company has released several video recordings of different operations running on their Librem 5 software on their developer kits...

The newest project being hosted by the Linux Foundation is Laminas, what was the PHP Zend Framework...

While Ubuntu 19.04 isn't even coming out until tomorrow, the indications around Ubuntu desktop ZFS support and functionality likely debuting the next cycle has us already quite eager for the Ubuntu 19.10 release coming out in October...