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DXVK 1.9.1 Released With Several Game Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 22:17
DXVK 1.9.1 is out as the newest version of this key component to Steam Play / Proton for running Windows games on Linux with DXVK being responsible for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 calls to Vulkan...

XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 20:32
Motivated in part by the recent le9 kernel patches that are already carried by XanMod and not having benchmarked the XanMod or Liquorix Linux kernel downstreams in a while, here are some fresh benchmarks of Liquorix and XanMod against the recent upstream Linux kernel releases.

Haiku R1 Beta 3 Released As Spiritual Successor To BeOS

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 17:50
One year after Haiku R1 Beta 2, the third beta of this inaugural release of the open-source Haiku operating system is now available for testing. Haiku remains the open-source OS project going on two decades for advancing as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

SDL2 Lands Support For Client-Side Decorations On Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 17:35
The SDL2 library that is commonly used by many cross-platform games landed several patches this weekend to improve its Wayland support...

How to use cron on Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 15:01

The cron system is a method to automatically run commands on a schedule. A scheduled job is called a cronjob, and it’s created in a file called a crontab. It’s the easiest and oldest way for a computer user to automate their computer.

Writing a cronjob

To create a cronjob, you edit your crontab using the -e option:


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Get started with WildFly for Java web development

opensource.com - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 15:00

WildFly is a production-ready, cross-platform, flexible, lightweight, managed application runtime that provides all the necessary features to run a Java web application. It is also a Java EE 8 certified application server almost exclusively in Java, and it implements the Jakarta EE, which was the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specifications. Therefore you can run it on any operating system.


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