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While upstream Wine developers continue working on VKD3D for providing a Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer for Wine, a developer on Valve's Proton team has now forked it as Proton-VKD3D for focusing their efforts on getting the D3D12 support moved along for Proton that powers Steam Play...

Valve Working On A VKD3D Fork For Getting Direct3D 12 Advanced For Proton / Steam Play  Phoronix

Yes, it's true the LibreOffice builds in recent days -- including the new LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 -- have "Personal Edition" branding for the open-source builds. But given user concerns, The Document Foundation board has issued some clarifications to try to ease any immediate rumors, etc...

How to install Python and start coding on Windows, Mac, or Linux  Android Authority

Millions Of Home Wi-Fi Routers Are Likely Vulnerable To Unpatched Linux Security Exploits  Hot Hardware

Use Samsung DeX with a Chromebook or Linux PC (unofficially)  Liliputing

How much Linux malware is there? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Global Linux Software Market Demand 2020: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  NJ MMA News

Seagate FireCuda 520 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

For those that have been considering the Seagate FireCuda 520 as a PCI Express 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive, here are some benchmarks under Ubuntu Linux with this ZP500GM3A002 drive.

How to enable logging for cron on Linux  TechRepublic

Linux In The Machine Shop Hack Chat  Hackaday

How to install Python and start coding on Windows, Mac, or Linux  Android Authority

Pico-ITX board based on i.MX8M ships with Linux BSP  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-ready Coffee Lake systems support Nvidia graphics  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-ready Coffee Lake systems support Nvidia graphics  LinuxGizmos.com

With just about one month to go until the official release, the first release candidate is out today of the LibreOffice 7.0 open-source, cross-platform office suite software...

Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux  ZDNet

The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard is now firmed up as H.266 as the successor to H.265/HEVC...

H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265  Phoronix