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The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...

In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed read-only file-system...

Stavba vlastního síťového úložiště (NAS) nemusí být drahá ani složitá. Jak jsem slíbil, v tomto článku se podíváme, jak zajistit, abychom věděli o tom, co se na naší NAS děje a nic nám neuniklo.

Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes si vyzkoušíme metronom pro Linux, zkontrolujeme si dostupnost portálů, dáme si pauzu, aby si naše oči odpočinuly a zkusíme si napsat vlastní knihu.

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates...

It was just a few days ago that a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel. Separate from that proposal from Multikernel Technologies, it turns out Bytedance has been working on their own similar solution called Parker. Today Bytedance lifted the lid on Parker as their solution for running multiple kernels simultaneously on the same hardware/system...

Nová hlavná verzia linuxovej distribúcie Tails 7.0 preberá aktualizácie z Debianu 13 Trixie vrátane desktopového prostredia GNOME 48 a jadra Linux 6.12 LTS. Vývojárom sa zároveň podarilo zrýchliť štart systému.

With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support.

Two pull requests were submitted this weekend of new Apple Silicon material ready for upstreaming with the soon-to-start Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...

For further enhancing the upstream Linux kernel support for the AMD (Xilinx) Versal SoCs, a new Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver is set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel for the Versal NET SoCs with DDR memory...

A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...

Merged to Mesa 25.3-devel on Monday is SPIR-V shader replacement support as a new feature for helping Mesa's Vulkan drivers in testing and debugging issues...

Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files...

Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release...

OBS Studio 32.0 stable is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop recording and screencasting software popular with game streamers and for a variety of other recording/casting purposes...

Android dlouhá léta bojkotoval podporu DHCPv6, aby zabránil přidělování jednotlivých adres koncovému zařízení. Připravuje se řešení, ale od správců sítí bude vyžadovat úpravy nastavení i adresních plánů.

Zaměříme se na popis složených datových typů a kontejnerů. Mezi základní typy kontejnerů patří vektory, staticky alokovaná pole, dynamicky alokovaná pole a můžeme sem zařadit i řezy.

While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features...

RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat / Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia / OpenMandriva, and others...