Svobodný software

Stavba vlastního síťového úložiště (NAS) nemusí být drahá ani složitá. V dnešním článku se podíváme blíž na to, jak připravit a nakonfigurovat základní služby, které od svého řešení chceme.

Pravidelná sonda do světa software. Podíváme se na nástroj pro monitorování a analýzu PTPv2 sítí, necháme si vytvořit uživatele a skupiny dle konfigurace a nakonec budeme procházet obrázky a PDF soubory unvitř archivů.

The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...

Next week marks one year since the launch of the Xeon 6900P series Granite Rapids server processors. Given the occasion and a new server in the lab, here is a look at how Intel's Granite Rapids top-end Xeon 6980P server processors are performing one year after the original introduction with a production-grade server platform as well as incorporating all of the Linux software improvements over the past year.

Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

It's beta day for Fedora 43 and the release media is ready for testing!..

As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.

Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...

Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...

Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...

Firmware je jako tajný agent uvnitř vašeho zařízení – nenápadný, ale bez něj by to bylo s elektronikou těžké. Aktualizace může být pro uživatele Linuxu výzvou. Podíváme na různé přístupy, komunitní řešení a rizika.

Navážeme na článek o zpracování skalárů i vektorů s prvky typu half float (FP16). Zabývat se budeme především „vektorovým“ rozšířením překladače GCC i překladem operací s vektory do instrukční sady A64 s rozšířením NEON.

After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...

The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...

The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...