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DXVK 2.1 has just been released as this Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan API translation layer that is most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for helping to run Windows games with great speed on Linux...

The openSUSE project in collaboration with Cisco is making it easier to deploy H.264 codec support on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed...

Od vydania poslednej stabilnej verzie linuxovej distribúcie Tails užívatelia nahlásili niekoľko závažných chýb. Veľkú časť z nich sa vývojárom podarilo opraviť v najnovšej verzii Tails 5.9, ktorá okrem opráv pribalila aj aktualizácie softvéru.

Wine 8.0 is now officially out as the annual stable feature update for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Sound Open Firmware 2.4.1 is out today as the first stable v2.4 release for this open-source audio / DSP firmware stack for not only modern Intel platforms but AMD, Mediatek, and other increasing industry use as well. With Sound Open Firmware 2.4 they have continued the transition in making use of Zephyr RTOS...

Going back to last August AMD Linux engineers began posting Linux kernel patches for new Quality of Service features coming with Zen 4. After a few rounds of review and updates to those patches, this work enabling the AMD SMBA and BMEC features for 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors appear positioned for introduction in the Linux 6.3 kernel cycle...

MoltenVK is out with a new release for implementing the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal API for enjoying this industry-standard graphics/compute API on macOS and iOS...

Red Hat's Peter Hutterer has released new versions of the xf86-video-qxl and xf86-video-vmware DDX drivers for those making use of these X.Org drivers in virtualized environments...

GStreamer 1.22 is out today as the first major release of 2023 for this open-source multimedia framework. With GStreamer 1.22 comes some exciting feature additions...

Jednou z velmi užitečných utilit v balíčku GNU Binutils je objdump. Ta umožňuje získávat důležité informace jak z objektových souborů, tak i z dynamicky linkovaných knihoven i ze spustitelných (nativních) souborů.

Těžiště Firewalld je v principu takzvaných služeb, tedy jakýchsi připravených šablon k okamžitému použití. Ty umožňují snadno propustit vybraný provoz. Ukážeme si, jak se službami pracovat a vytvořit vlastní.

For fans of the IceWM X11 window manager that has been around since the late 90's, IceWM 3.3.1 was released today as the first (minor) release of 2023...

Nová stabilná verzia linuxovej distribúcie Netrunner 23 zhrnula pre užívateľov všetky aktualizácie softvérových balíčkov za posledné dva roky. Netrunner zároveň touto verziou už konečne dobieha doterajšie novinky v Debiane 11.

It's easy to forget that Microsoft maintains a command-line package manager for Windows... The open-source WinGet package manager is approaching three years since its announcement while it continues to not be as rich and robust of what Linux users for many years have enjoyed, but in any case it's continuing to be improved...

There still is another month to go until the Linux 6.2 kernel is released as stable and in turn kicking off the Linux 6.3 merge window. But from my monitoring in recent weeks, here is an early preview of some of the material expected for the v6.3 kernel based on what's been queuing in the various subsystem "-next" branches or otherwise looking like it should align for the next cycle...

With this weekend's release of helloSystem 0.8 as a macOS-inspired open-source desktop OS built atop FreeBSD, I decided to try out this new release on an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop to see how it would go.

The Armv8.1-M based Cortex-M85 processor support has made it into the GCC 13 compiler for this highest performing Cortex-M processor use for MCUs and embedded applications...

Fwupd 1.8.10 is out this morning to kickoff a new week and continuing to enhance the open-source firmware updating support on Linux systems...

V dnešním díle Postřehů se podíváme na to, proč v blízké době nedostane hra League of Legends aktualizaci, kolik stojí měsíční pronájem malware, či jak ChatGPT ovlivní vývoj malware.

Fedora 38 sníží čas potřebný pro vypnutí a restart systému. NetBSD by se brzy mohl dočkat podpory souborového systému HAMMER2. Vydání Ubuntu 22.04.2 bylo odloženo o dva týdny.