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CodeWeavers is helping make DirectX 12 Windows games playable on Linux  XDA Developers

Thomas Chaudoir Obituary  Green Bay Press Gazette

Arch-based Manjaro Linux is out with version 21.2 "Qonos" ahead of the holidays in offering some nice incremental updates for this popular enthusiast distribution...

For those wanting to pickup some new games to enjoy around the holidays and/or expand your game collection ahead of the Steam Deck beginning to ship next quarter, Valve's Winter Sale is now underway...

Valve's Steam Winter Sale Is Now Underway  Phoronix

While the VKD3D-Proton fork has been very active and running an increasing number of Direct3D 12 Windows games well as part of Valve's Steam Play, CodeWeavers and the upstream Wine community does continue working on VKD3D. CodeWeavers is planning to make big improvements to VKD3D in 2022 to offer better DirectX 12 support with their commercial CrossOver software for Linux and macOS...

CodeWeavers Planning For A Busy 2022 With VKD3D D3D12 For CrossOver  Phoronix

The 6 Best White Noise Apps for Linux to Help You Relax  MUO - MakeUseOf

Fedora Kinoite: A fascinating take on the operating system  TechRepublic

3 Ways to install .NET Core (dotnet) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal fossa  Linux Shout

Learn How to Manage Remote Connections via SSH  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Build a Linux Desktop Environment  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Build a Linux Desktop Environment  MakeUseOf

5 Threats to Watch Out for in 2022  CSO Online

Intel oneAPI Toolkits 2022 Released  Phoronix

Intel has now made their oneAPI Toolkits 2022 release publicly available after announcing it earlier this quarter...

OSS News: Learn More Linux, More Zen for ML, Desktop Linux New and Old  LinuxInsider.com

How to digitize documents with feeder scanners on Linux  Market Research Telecast

What Is Linux Patch Management and Why Is It Important?  Security Boulevard

Released earlier this month was AMD's AOCC 3.2 compiler based on LLVM/Clang/Flang that provides optimized support for AMD Zen processors. I've been running some benchmarks of AOCC 3.2 compared to prior AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler releases and this newest release has been helpful in squeezing a bit more out of Zen 3.