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With the newly-released LLVM 20.1 compiler stack among the many changes throughout the massive codebase is renaming the "flang-new" compiler just to "flang". This new Flang compiler front-end has matured quite well over the years to providing robust and reliable Fortran language support within the confines of the LLVM toolchain...

Longtime KDE developer who has served with Plasma release management duties, KDE Neon operating system development, and former Kubuntu release manager, among other roles, announced he will be stepping down from his Plasma release management duties...

GStreamer 1.26 is out today as the newest major feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia framework...

Nekupoval jsem bezzrcadlovku v sadě s objektivem, protože si chci vybrat vlastní sklo, pro focení sportu v hale vhodnější. Parametrů je mnoho. Jaké nakonec rozhodly a kde se dá ušetřit a nepřijít o obrazovou kvalitu?

Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes si představíme ovládací panel webhostingu, nahrajeme si dění na obrazovce, přehrajeme si hudbu a vyzkoušíme otevřenou alternativu k MongoDB.

An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog...

Používatelia distribúcie SparkyLinux majú dostupné nové inštalačné obrazy rolling release edície s aktualizáciami softvérových balíčkov. Vydanie obrazov s predinštalovaným prostredím KDE Plasma 6 však bolo odložené.

As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB total cache makes for an excellent desktop CPU. In this review are around 400 Linux benchmarks looking at the captivating performance and competitive power efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward...

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!..

Patches were posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this morning for wiring up the ESWIN EIC7700 RISC-V SoC support and the most notable board using this SoC so far, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550...

The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications...

Since last year we have continued to be impressed by the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors while today they are announcing the EPYC Embedded 9005 line-up. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are much like the EPYC 9005 series processors but with a few differences...

FreeBSD 13.5 is out today as the final update to the FreeBSD 13 series. Users should begin making plans for upgrading to the current FreeBSD 14 stable series or eyeing the future FreeBSD 15.0 release...

Soukromí při práci na mobilních telefonech je dnes ohroženo nejen aplikacemi, ale i systémovými službami. Můžete vyzkoušet alternativní systém GrapheneOS, který sběr dat minimalizuje. Jak moc je to omezující?

Dokončíme popis rozšíření instrukční sady SSE. Ukážeme si některé netriviální operace, které je možné provádět se skaláry a především s vektory. Jedná se o konverzní operace a taktéž o rozbalování a zabalování prvků vektorů.

Building off the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release from January, OpenZFS 2.3.1 is out today with Linux 6.13 kernel compatibility as well as various bug fixes...

Mir 2.20 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-developed Wayland compositor and set of libraries for developing Wayland-based shells...