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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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