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Even with the holidays quickly approaching, KDE developers remain very busy in landing fixes -- especially crash fixes -- and fixing up Plasma's Wayland session for ensuring it is very polished for 2022...

KDE Prepares More Crash Fixes Ahead Of The Holidays  Phoronix

Linux boot times are about to get a whole lot faster on monster AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon rigs  Neowin

Is Linux a More Secure OS Than Windows?  Medium

Digital painting is an art form all its own. It obviously emulates the discipline it's named for, but painting in the physical world and a digital environment is unique. Krita is a digital paint application that's seen use at major film production houses, book publishers, and art studios. It specializes in materials emulation, allowing the artist to adjust and fine-tune their tools through a brush engine so that they can achieve exactly the look and drawing feel they need.

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The highly anticipated Godot 4.0 game engine release continues moving closer and should soon see an official alpha release...

Outrage over AWS outages | Rusty Linux | Latest from ARM  BollyInside

Outrage over AWS outages | Rusty Linux | Latest from ARM  BollyInside

Run Linux edge applications on Windows PCs and servers with EFLOW  TechRepublic

Run Linux edge applications on Windows PCs and servers with EFLOW  TechRepublic

Firefox 95 for Windows and Mac introduces RLBox, a new sandboxing tech  Ars Technica

CentOS Linux 8 is about to die. What do you do next?  ZDNet

What if we said you could turn any disk into a multi-boot OS installer for free without touching a single config file?  The Register

Following last week's Wine 6.23 development release, Wine 7.0-rc1 was just declared in marking the end of feature development and beginning preparations for issuing Wine 7.0.0 stable in January...

How to Install VMware on Linux and Create Your First Virtual Machine  MUO - MakeUseOf

The open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver work covered yesterday about a big optimization by leveraging NIR and going through that intermediate representation and relying on common NIR optimizations has now been merged into Mesa 22.0. This is a step-up from the existing open-source OpenGL driver support for old Radeon 9500 through Radeon X1000 series (R500) graphics processors. A similar conversion is also planned for the old Nouveau driver handling NVIDIA "NV30" era graphics processors too...

While it won't make it for the upcoming Wine 7.0, the Wayland driver for natively supporting this X11 successor continues maturing and in the not too distant future will hopefully begin receiving more widespread testing via Wine-Staging...

Wine's Wayland Driver Continues Maturing, Aims To Go Through Wine-Staging  Phoronix

Linux Community Updates 20 Year Old AMD GPU Driver  Tom's Hardware

Linux Community Finally Fixes 20 Year Old AMD GPU Bug  Tom's Hardware