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The Windows game Control that runs via Valve's Steam Play no longer needs the RADV_PERFTEST=rt environment variable override to enjoy the ray-tracing support but with Mesa 23.1 (and potentially backported for 23.0) will work out-of-the-box...

The Genode open-source operating system framework that pursues a micro-kernel design has published their technical roadmap for the 2023 calendar year...

Stemming from the X.Org Server change to no longer allow byte-swapped clients by default due to the feature being rarely used but of significant security concerns with being a large attack surface, GNOME's Mutter compositor has added optional support for being able to enable byte-swapped XWayland clients...

Sonda do světa otevřeného softwaru. Dnes si představíme alternativního správce balíčků, vyzkoušíme software pro správu projektů a úkolů, přehrajeme si hudbu za Spotify v textovém rozhraní a podíváme se zaměstnancům na docházku.

Earlier this month at CES, Intel announced the 35 and 65 Watt Raptor Lake processors alongside the 13th Gen Core Mobile CPUs. Those new Raptor Lake desktop CPUs are now available from multiple Internet retailers and the mid-range Core i5 13400 recently arrived at Phoronix to put it through its paces under Linux.

After quietly posting a "request for comments" patch series a few months back to no fanfare, AMD today published their post-RFC patch series today for introducing the AMD CDX bus to the Linux kernel. AMD CDX is ultimately for the interface/bus between the APU and FPGA(s) with future hardware...

Vývojári zo spoločnosti Canonical vyhlásili súťaž pre umelcov a grafických dizajnérov, ktorí sa môžu podieľať na vzhľade pripravovanej verzie Ubuntu 23.04 s kódovým menom Lunar Lobster. Vybraných bude až 5 výherných pozadí plochy.

Apple today announced their M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs found in new Apple MacBook Pro devices and they have also updated their Mac Mini computers with the M2 and interestingly even offering a model with the M2 Pro SoC...

SUSE compiler engineer Jan Hubicka has landed some additional AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU target tuning ahead of the upcoming GCC 13 stable compiler release...

For over a decade now RebeccaBlackOS "RBOS" has been around as a live Linux environment intended to showcase the latest Wayland code from various desktops/compositors to other Wayland-native software. RBOS pre-dates many of the major Linux distributions offering any Wayland support out-of-the-box...

While the Vulkan Video extensions were introduced provisionally nearly two years ago and Vulkan Video 1.0 firmed up in December, sadly to date they have been focused on H.264 and H.265 video acceleration. VP9 and AV1 extensions for Vulkan Video are expected in 2023, but in advance of the cross-vendor extensions, VK_MESA_video_decode_av1 has been devised as an extension enabling RADV accelerated video decode with AMD Radeon GPUs...

In addition to Intel engineers this past week releasing the newest Intel Media Driver quarterly release, they have also published libva 2.17 as the newest version of this open-source Video Acceleration API library that is used across VA-API vendor/driver implementations...

Libvirt 9.0 was released on Monday as the newest version of this Linux Virtualization API. This virtualization API backed by Red Hat continues to support a wide range of hypervisors and with the v9.0 release has added additional functionality...

V dalším článku o linuxovém firewallu spravovaném pomocí Firewalld si ukážeme, jak přiřadit síťové rozhraní do zóny a jak povolovat průchod jednotlivých služeb mezi používanými zónami.

Ve druhé části seriálu o knihovně Polars, jejímž cílem je být výkonnější alternativou ke známé knihovně Pandas, se budeme převážně zabývat operacemi, které je možné provádět s datovými rámci (data frames).

If things go as planned, the TPM2 device found within Microsoft's Pluton security processor on the latest AMD Ryzen SoCs will be supported by Linux 6.3...

One of the most exciting features of Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors is the introduction of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). The Intel AMX ISA extensions are intended for speeding-up AI and machine learning related workloads. In this article is a look at the AMX performance on the Xeon Platinum 8490H processors on/off for machine learning performance.

While the Xilinx Alveo PCIe accelerator cards have been around for several years and there has been ongoing Linux driver work equally as long, one element of the support has remained elusive from the upstream Linux kernel: the XDMA subsystem driver...

Intel last week introduced the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors and kicking off this week is an exciting new development: patches are pending for upstreaming Sapphire Rapids processor support into the open-source Coreboot!..

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is the repository where their latest FFmpeg GPU acceleration patches are housed until being upstreamed into FFmpeg proper. Out today is FFmpeg 2022Q4 as the latest collection of Intel's patches for this open-source multimedia library from new hardware support to enhancing AV1 and HEVC/H.265 accelerated video encoding...