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Intel announced at the start of the year their newest Itanium 9700 "Kittson" processors from 2017 would be discontinued with no planned successor for the IA-64 line-up. Given the IA-64 compiler support is already in rough shape for GCC, the GNU developers are planning to deprecate the support for the current GCC 10 cycle and to remove it entirely for GCC 11...

With Intel's Icelake/Gen11 graphics support considered production-ready when on the latest Linux graphics driver components and ahead of the real enablement around their highly anticipated Xe Graphics discrete hardware, it's making for a summer of clean-ups and restructuring within their kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver...

The first alpha release of PHP 7.4 is now available ahead of its feature freeze next month and after a period of betas and release candidates will culminate with the official PHP 7.4.0 release around the end of November...

The Linux 5.3 mainline kernel will be picking up support for enabling Linux guests on the ACRN hypervisor...

If you are a user of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux graphics driver on laptops and have found no audio support, that is likely to be fixed by an upcoming kernel patch that should make its way to the Linux 5.3 kernel...

As a win for the Ubuntu Server team, the founder of Inkscape and longtime X.Org/graphics developer Bryce Harrington has returned to Canonical...

While Vega M has been on the market for several months as the Radeon graphics processor found on Intel Kabylake-G chips, interestingly in the past few days have been a number of improvements for using the open-source Linux graphics stack on this hardware...

After announcing Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 just over one month ago, Microsoft has begun pushing out WSL2 to its Windows Insider Preview channel...

While looking forward to the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 milestone, in the meantime GIMP 2.10 point releases have tended to be fairly notable and today's GIMP 2.10.12 update is another useful update...

[9 minut čtení] V šiestom pokračovaní série článkov o Symfony si spojíme viaceré koncepty, o ktorých sme hovorili v minulých častiach a pridáme flashové správy. Ukážeme si tiež, ako pomocou relácie uchováme vyplnené políčka formulára. V našej aplikácii budeme mať formulár s dvoma políčkami: meno užívateľa a email. Vstup od užívateľa bude validovaný pomocou Symfony validátora. Formulár je typu POST, preto budeme používať CSRF ochranu. V prípade nesprávne vyplnených údajov budeme presmerovaný späť na formulár, kde sa nám zobrazia chybové hlášky vo forme krátkodobých flashových správ. Vyplnené údaje budeme uchovávať pomocou relácie a po presmerovaní sa nestratia.

[25 minut čtení] V páté části seriálu o mikroslužbách se seznámíme s některými užitečnými nástroji a službami, které se používají při vývoji, nasazování i sledování mikroslužeb. Jedná se například o Apache ZooKeeper, Prometheus, Grafana atd. 1. Nástroje a služby využívané při nasazování mikroslužeb

Last year we looked at the Spectre mitigation cost on POWER9 using the high-end Talos II server while now several kernel releases later and also having the desktop Blackbird system in our lab, here is a look at how the Spectre/Meltdown mitigation impact is for an IBM POWER9 4-core processor running Ubuntu 19.04.

NetBSD 8.1 je o niečo rýchlejším a bezpečnejším systémom, FreeBSD pripravuje vydanie verzie 11.3 a DragonFlyBSD oznamuje príchod dôležitých noviniek.

CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and a lot of other experiments, is experimenting with moving further away from Microsoft products. Due to Microsoft license fee increases affecting their work in the research laboratory and its budget, they established the Microsoft Alternatives "MAlt" project...

The ever important Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) can now handle HiDPI window scaling under Wayland...

Back during CES, Intel announced the Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (NNPI) to be powered by 10nm Ice Lake cores. Now ahead of the Linux 5.3 kernel cycle we're seeing the very first signs of the Ice Lake NNPI upbringing for the kernel...

Last week an on-disk GLSL shader cache was proposed for the vintage "R300g" open-source Gallium3D driver for this OpenGL code supporting through the Radeon X1000 (R500) series. That shader cache support has now been merged into Mesa 19.2...

The first release candidate for the next major release of the DragonFlyBSD operating system is now available for testing...

While Oracle backs the VM VirtualBox virtualization software, they increasingly are offering new solutions around KVM virtualization. Hitting general availability (GA) status this week is the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager...

Following Monday's release of Wine 4.10, Wine-Staging 4.10 is now available as the latest work on this bleeding-edge / testing version of Wine for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...