While the Unigine SDK these days is more known for its simulation and engineering offerings rather than as a game engine, this engine remains visually impressive and continues advancing. Unigine 2.19 has been released that brings a number of improvements to the engine and leaves us clamoring to see a new/updated benchmark...
There are a few interesting bits of information as part of this week's updates from the Ubuntu Desktop Team Integration Squad...
LunarG engineer Aitor Camacho Larrondo has proposed VK_EXT_external_memory_metal, a new extension for the Vulkan API to allow for more easily sharing memory objects from Vulkan with Apple's Metal...
Dnes si popíšeme pokročilejší grafické operace podporované kartou VGA, které dokáží ušetřit práci CPU. Jedná se o horizontální i vertikální scrolling, podporu pro double i tripple buffering a taktéž o režim rozdělené obrazovky.
A new batch of HID subsystem fixes were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel development...
The FreeBSD open-source operating system project published their Q2'2024 status report that outlines some interesting work happening to this leading BSD project...
NVIDIA recently sent over their RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards suited for designers, engineers, and creative professionals. In my testing the past several weeks these professional graphics cards have been working out with NVIDIA's Linux driver stack -- including their open-source kernel modules now the default with the R555 driver series and later. While there is that previous article looking at how their open-source kernel drivers are at parity to the former proprietary kernel modules, today's article is looking at how the NVIDIA RTX 2000/4000 Ada Generation performance stacks up against the AMD Radeon Pro competition.
Red Hat engineer Jan Grulich has provided an update today on PipeWire camera handling with the upcoming Fedora 41 release...
GameMode as the open-source daemon from Feral Interactive to optimize Linux system performance on-demand when running games is out with its first release of 2024...
If you are picking up one of the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors soon for Linux use, you may be wondering whether it's worthwhile or even necessary moving to the latest Linux kernel code compared to the likes of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that are shipping a Linux 6.8 derived kernel. Here are some quick benchmarks in looking at that question...
To date the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer has been offered with either 4GB or 8GB of system memory. The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB has retailed for $60 USD while the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB at $80 USD. For those needing something a little cheaper and not needing as much system memory, the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB model launched today...
AMD just announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ZT Systems, a hyperscale solutions provider focused on AI...
Dnes se podíváme na nově vydané šifrovací standardy NIST, statistiky DDoS útoků za první pololetí roku 2024, potenciální kyberšpionáž v Rusku a zranitelnosti v produktech od Microsoftu.
Redox OS představil nový webový server a schopnost vytvářet binární soubory. Vývojáři Debianu vylepšují a zrychlují správce balíčků APT. Vydání Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS muselo být odloženo kvůli objevení řady chyb.
The fourth weekly release candidate of Linux 6.11 is now available for testing...
Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its "August 2024" rolling release update...
While Linus Torvalds was hoping to merge the sched_ext extensible scheduler for the Linux v6.11 kernel cycle, that didn't end up happening after some technical issues were raised on the kernel mailing list. Since then though the kernel developers have been collaborating and given the latest sched_ext patches with "for-next" and "for-6.12" markings, it's looking like the extensible scheduler will be attempted again for the Linux 6.12 merge window...
Ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc4 kernel release coming up later today, some more Bcachefs file-system patches were merged this weekend for this experimental copy-on-write file-system...
Faith Ekstrand has merged another two dozen patches for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 24.3...
Podpora AMD Smart Data Cache Injection, KDE a správa barev na Waylandu, Ubuntu s X.Org v samostatném balíčku, TI postaví továrny za miliardy,