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[1 minuta čtení] Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes se podíváme na editor vektorové grafiky, prohlédneme si pár komiksů, řekneme si o editoru fontů a vyzkoušíme si systém pro projektový management. Aplikace na modelování vektorů, která přináší funkce 3D modelování do světa 2D vektorové grafiky. Koncept ovládání se nachází někde mezi CAD programem a grafickým editorem. Své využití najde při tvorbě a úpravě animací, diagramů, ikon nebo technických nákresů.

It's been a gripe for many running Linux on low RAM systems especially is that when the Linux desktop is under memory pressure the performance can be quite brutal with the system barely being responsive. The discussion over that behavior has been reignited this week...

For those making use of RHEL7 and not planning to shift to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 anytime soon, RHEL 7.7 is now officially available...

Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver as their new OpenGL Linux driver aiming to be the default Mesa driver by year's end continues seeing more performance optimizations now that the fundamentals are in place. The latest optimization is a one line tweak yielding around one percent higher performance across the board...

Version 5.4 of KDE's KDevelop integrated development environment is now available...

There hasn't been a new FFmpeg release since last November but that finally changed with FFmpeg 4.2 "Ada" being issued today as the newest major release for this multimedia open-source project...

The GNOME 3.34 beta (v3.33.90) release is now available one day early and also marks the point at which the feature freeze is in effect along with the user-interface changes and no API/ABI breakage...

Intel decided today to reveal a few new details about their Xeon "Cooper Lake" processors due out in H1'2020...

An interesting summer internship at Google has led to an experimental effort to get Microsoft Windows running via Kexec from Linux. The engineers involved have been implementing enough of the EFI Boot Services to be able to kexec Windows from Linux...

Last week AMD published their RDNA instruction set architecture documentation. That's a bit heavy reading unless you are a driver developer or low-level engine developer, but for those wanting a bit of a higher-level look at AMD's new RDNA graphics architecture, today they uploaded a new slide deck...

Since Microsoft's first preview release of Windows Terminal earlier this summer it's been entertaining to watch its evolution with the Redmond giant trying to make a first-rate terminal emulator for Windows and one that can appease veteran Linux users...

We're less than two months out until the annual X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) and the featured presentations for this three-day event have now been announced...

One of the long-time work-in-progress patch series has been realized in time for next month's GNOME 3.34 release... Mutter when acting as a Wayland compositor will allow starting XWayland on-demand, or rather only running it when needed to handle an X11 client/application...

Po konferencii DebConf 19 sa vývojári populárnej linuxovej distribúcie Debian rozhodli užívateľom oznámiť dátum vydania aktualizácií pre verzie Debianu 10 a 9 stable.

While a new Proton 4.11 release came out last week as a big Valve update that included pulling in DXVK 1.3, Philip Rebohle who leads work on this Direct3D-over-Vulkan layer today released DXVK 1.3.2 as the latest update for improving the Windows/Direct3D on Linux gaming experience...

[43 minut čtení] Ve druhém článku o nástroji Kawa, který nabízí interpret a současně i překladač jazyka Scheme běžícího v ekosystému JVM, si ukážeme, jakým způsobem dokáže překladač Kawa generovat výsledný bajtkód JVM. 1. Kawa: interpret a současně i překladač programovacího jazyka Scheme do bajtkódu JVM

The GlusterFS network attached storage file-system developed by Red Hat with a focus on cloud computing is the latest open-source project eyeing the removal of 32-bit (i686) software support...

With the AMD Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux driver support maturing and the early optimizations/fixes and lingering feature work now calming down for the Linux 5.3 kernel and within RadeonSI/RADV for the imminent branching of Mesa 19.2, here is another look at how the Navi performance stands today compared to AMD Vega graphics cards and the high-end NVIDIA Pascal and Turing graphics cards.

The GNU Compiler Collection 9.2 release should be out next Monday while until then a release candidate was issued today for testing...

Čtvrtá generace Raspberry Pi je už více než měsíc k dispozici. Podívejme se na aktuální stav softwarové podpory pro tento model v různých linuxových distribucích.