Svobodný software

Nástroj Proton 6.3-8 rozšíril svoj zoznam hrateľných hier o 24 titulov a novinkami sú aj ďalšie opravy chýb pre rôzne iné hry. V tejto novej verzii Protonu pribudli tiež aktualizácie jeho softvérových komponentov a zlepšenia podpory DLSS.

FUTEX2 as in the new futex_waitv system call landed in Linux 5.16 back during the merge window for improving the efficiency of running Windows games on Linux for those that rely on Windows' WaitForMultipleObjects functionality with futex_waitv is now the ability to wait on multiple futexes. That new system call is now supported on more architectures with the next Linux 5.16 release candidate...

USB a speciálně HID (nejen Nintendo a Sony), další vylepšení pro Apple M1, rekultivace paměti na bázi Amazon DAMON, čištění jádra, aktualizace řízení spotřeby CPU AMD až v Linuxu 5.17.

PHP 8.1.0 was just officially released as the latest annual feature update to this widely-used, server-side programming language...

Added to the Arch Linux install media back in April was Archinstall for easy and quick installations. It's worked very well for basic Arch Linux installs in a matter of minutes while with Archinstall 2.3 now available it has even more features...

Wireshark as the very useful and powerful open-source packet analyzer for networking and other communication protocols is out with a shiny new release...

With Mesa 21.3 having released last week and its first point release due next week, Mesa 21.2.6 has been published as likely the last update to that N-1 series for these open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

Mobilní verze klienta privátního cloudu Nextcloud přináší novinky – zálohování kalendáře, jednotné vyhledávání a vylepšené funkce sdílení. 

Last week NVIDIA announced the Image Scaling SDK as an open-source, cross-platform GPU image upscaling implementation that with their own hardware makes use of DLSS. Following the brief exposure over the past week, NVIDIA Image Scaling SDK 1.0 has been formally christened...

It's been almost two months since Proton 6.3-7 released and two weeks since 6.3-8 RC while this evening that Proton 6.3-8 stable release is out for empowering Valve's Steam Play in running Windows games on Linux...

V minulé části jsme s pomocí moderního hardware a emulátoru nachystali kartu CompactFlash pro použití v Amize. Samotná prázdná karta ale nemá moc význam, proto dalším logickým krokem je instalace operačního systému.

With Intel Tiger Lake mobile processors introduced last year there has been good open-source support going back to launch, but a few of the more niche features have seen slower than normal handling for getting the features supported by the upstream Linux kernel. The latest patch series being revived now is for Intel Key Locker support...

Alpine Linux 3.15 is out today as the newest feature update to this lightweight/embedded/containers focused Linux distribution known for its musl+Busybox usage along with OpenRC as the init system...

With AMD having published a new revision to their AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver that they are working towards mainlining with a goal of better power efficiency on Linux, here are some initial benchmarks of that new patch series when using a Ryzen 5 5500U notebook.

A status update on Blender's "Cycles X" project was published today ahead of the upcoming Blender 3.0 release and with already some feature additions planned for Blender 3.1...

The Zhouyi AI accelerator was developed by Arm China and is found in some SoCs so far. An open-source Linux kernel driver is being worked on for it but unfortunately for now at least any mainline ambitions are immediately stalled over the lack of an open-source user-space/client...

Well known open-source Linux graphics expert David Airlie of Red Hat has recently been working on early Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" and Intel "ANV" drivers. As part of that effort and in part due to lack of software making use of Vulkan Video extensions right now, he has started exploring the feasibility of implementing the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop Vulkan Video...

An effort recently restarted that originally dates back many years is the "pvUSB" front-end driver for Linux to allow physical USB devices to be used within Xen domains...

Po opätovnom zrýchlení vývoja sa Slackware ako jedna z najstarších stále spravovaných linuxových distribúcií posúva ku dokončeniu novej verzie. Po vydaní druhej release candidate verzie Slackware 15 sa vývojári sústredia už iba na posledné chyby a stabilitu systému.

V posledním dílu této minisérie budou zmíněny základní možnosti tzv. parametrizovaných testů. Ty jsou výhodné v případě, že chceme tentýž kód testu spustit s různými vstupními daty.