Svobodný software

Ahead of AMD releasing their Zen 6 EPYC and Ryzen processors in 2026, AMD today saw their Zen 6 "znver6" support land into the GCC 16 open-source compiler...

Intel this week released their last planned feature update to their open-source Compute Runtime for 2025. The Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 delivers the latest OpenCL and Level Zero performance optimizations, Xe3 workarounds, and other fixes for those on Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

If you are not satisfied with the current performance for PyTorch or ComfyUI / Stable Diffusion on your Strix Halo APU system or with other consumer RDNA3/RDNA4 Radeon consumer GPUs, AMD engineers are interested in your logs to help better optimize the performance going forward...

Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5...

Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...

Minule jsme zajistili, aby se při otočení notebooku nebo připojení klávesnice obrazovky automaticky přeuspořádaly. Nyní si ukážeme, jak elegantně propojit systémový udev s uživatelským grafickým sezením.

Sonda do světa svobodného softwaru. Dnes si vytvoříme zástupce na ploše, vytvoříme si zvukové smyčky, vyzkoušíme textový editor pro terminál a řekneme si o platformě pro vzdálený přístup.

One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing. Those wishing to learn more about Cache Aware Scheduling, there was a presentation on it last week by Intel engineers Tim Chen and Chen Yu at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo...

As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers...

Last year Red Hat acquired Neural Magic as part of their AI acquisitions and to bolster the open-source AI ecosystem. Today they announced another AI acquisition...

The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...

Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...

While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system...

OpenShot 3.4 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source video editor app. OpenShot 3.4 happens to be "one of our largest updates we've ever done" with a variety of improvements in tow...

Microsoft on Monday released Azure Linux 3.0.20251206 as the newest monthly update to its in-house Linux distribution used within the Azure cloud and elsewhere at the Windows company...

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming...

Na Univerzitě Pardubice používáme centralizované řešení automatizace vydávání certifikátů. Připravuje se zkracování doby platnosti certifikátů a popíšeme si proto nástroje a skripty, které k tomu používáme.

V dnešní části seriálu o programovacím jazyku C3 se budeme zabývat tím, jakým způsobem je možné zkombinovat zdrojový kód v jazyku C3 s assemblerem. Jedná se přitom o jednu z klíčových vlastností programovacího jazyka C3.

GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series...