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Following recent talk of Fedora potentially switching to Btrfs and Red Hat's Storage Instatiation Daemon among other Linux storage areas pursued by Red Hat, it turns out "Project Springfield" is some effort being pursued by the enterprise Linux giant for improving in this area...

Aside from the H1'2020 open-source/Linux highlights, here is our look at the top stories for June 2020 on Phoronix with many interesting software and hardware topics...

AOMP 11.6-2 is out this evening as the final Radeon Open Compute update for H1'2020. This is AMD's LLVM Clang downstream focused on providing OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

[7 minut čtení] Význam počítačových sítí pro firmy narůstá, kromě propustnosti a bezpečnosti přicházejí také nové požadavky: rychlejší nasazování nových funkcí, jednotné politiky v síti a moderní autentizační metody. Ve čtvrtek 25. června proběhla druhá část online konference věnované moderním počítačovým sítím. Organizátorem byla společnost Cisco a Root.cz byl mediálním partnerem akce. Během druhého dne se hovořilo především o trendech v přepínaných sítích a změně přístupu k sítím obecně. K dispozici jsou záznamy z online konference.

[1 minuta čtení] Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes budeme vyvíjet pro mikrokontroléry i desktop, namapujeme klávesy na gamepad, usnadníme si definování procesů pro sestavení a deployment a nakonec si vytvoříme datový 2D diagram. AvalonStudio je IDE pro vývoj embedded řešení (STM32, Raspberry Pi, ARM, x86, x64) v C/C++ i psaní desktopových či mobilních aplikací s využitím .NET Core, Typescript a Avalonia UI. Díky rozšiřitelnosti prostředí lze přidat/dovyvinout vlastní nástroj, službu, debugger nebo kompilátor. S projektem či řešením jsou automaticky distribuovány všechny potřebné nástroje pro sestavení programu.

Intel has introduced a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver for Linux...

As one of the last minute change proposals for Fedora 33 is to introduce the Red Hat backed Storage Instantiation Daemon "SID" though at least for this first release would be off by default. The Storage Instantiation Daemon is one of the latest storage efforts being worked on by Red Hat engineers...

The Crust CRM suite that aims to compete with Salesforce has been open-source under an Apache 2.0 license but now its paywall has been dropped to make it more compelling as a free software CRM suite...

Fedora stakeholders are debating the merits of potentially ending legacy BIOS support for the Linux distribution and to only support UEFI-based installations...

One of the security improvements being worked on in recent months by Intel's open-source team has been FGKASLR. But how is the performance overhead compared to just traditional KASLR? Here are benchmarks looking at the performance impact of FGKASLR on top, just KASLR, and then no address space layout randomization.

The Khronos Group has announced the provisional specification of SYCL 2020 as the newest version of this higher-level programming model originally designed for OpenCL that is based on pure single-source C++...

Firefox 78.0 is available this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser. Firefox 78.0 is also significant in being the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) series...

The AMD Radeon Vulkan driver developers are ending out June by shipping their sixth open-source snapshot of the quarter...

KDE has completed its transition to its own self-hosted GitLab instance for Git hosting and other developer services for handling of bug reports and merge requests...

It's been quite an unfortunately wild year thus far with everything going on in the world, but at least within the open-source / Linux scope it's been an exciting time as ever. Here is a look at the top stories on Phoronix during the first half of this year...

Fedora for the past few releases doesn't show the GRUB boot-loader menu by default when only Fedora is installed on the system as there is little purpose for most users and it just interrupts the boot flow. But for those wanting to access the GRUB bootloader menu on reboot, they offer integration in GNOME to easily reboot into this menu. The other exception is the menu will be shown if the previous boot failed. This functionality has relied on downstream patches but now they are working towards a better upstream solution...

Zink is the generic OpenGL over Vulkan driver that has been in development as part of Mesa's Gallium3D code. It was just earlier this month that Zink achieved OpenGL 3.0 support and now it looks like OpenGL 3.1 will soon be flipped on...

Vývojáři uvolnili Linux Mint 20 s kódovým jménem Ulyana. K dispozici jsou tři příchuti: Cinnamon, MATE a Xfce. Podívejte se společně s námi, jak nová verze vypadá od instalace až po provoz desktopu.

Lua 5.4 shipped today as the newest version of the interpreter for this scripting programming language that is particularly popular for embedding within games and other applications...

Recently AMD posted UVD video decode support for GCN 1.0 with the AMDGPU driver, one of the long holdouts for letting the AMDGPU DRM driver approach feature parity with the longstanding Radeon DRM driver that is the default for GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPUs. That AMDGPU UVD GCN 1.0 decode support is going into the Linux 5.9 kernel later this summer after years ago Radeon driver developers largely dismissed the efforts of porting the UVD decode capability for these original GCN graphics cards over to AMDGPU...