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Steam Deck: How Proton will make your Steam games shine on Valve’s handheld  Tom's Guide

Windows The Most Popular OS For Development Followed By Linux And macOS  Fossbytes

The Open 3D Engine spun out of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine has been seeing progress on Vulkan 1.2 API work as well as Linux porting at large, including the bringing up of the game engine's editor on Linux...

How to Install Different Browsers on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Microsoft Linux is not what you thought (or hoped) it would be  TechRepublic

The KWinFT fork of KDE's KWin compositor has landed its support for using the WLROOTS Wayland library...

What is Valve Proton? The Steam Deck's live-or-die Linux software, explained  PCWorld

The newest performance optimization merged this week for Mesa's "RADV" Radeon Vulkan open-source driver is NGG culling for Navi 1x/2x graphics cards. NGG Culling "NGGC" isn't enabled by default at this time but can be easily activated and depending upon the software under test can provide some minor performance gains on top of all the other optimizations seen in recent times for RADV.

Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling  Phoronix

Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner  ZDNet

An early batch of "drm-misc-next" changes has been sent to DRM-Next for queuing to ultimately land with the Linux 5.15 kernel...

Recently in Coreboot Git has been more work on expanding its (experimental) 64-bit mode for execution...

Distributed machine learning: Substra new in the Linux Foundation's incubator  Market Research Telecast

At the start of 2020 Amazon engineers sent out a "request for comments" around DAMON as a new kernel feature to monitor data accesses and can be used for purposes like analyzing over-committed memory use, debugging, and other optimizations. DAMON has now seen thirty-four revisions to the patches but it looks like it could finally be in a state for mainlining in the Linux kernel...

Amazon's DAMON Might Finally Be Ready For Upstreaming Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Global Operating Systems Market Research 2021-2030 Featuring Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Canonical, Debian, IBM, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, SUSE  Yahoo Finance

Global Operating Systems Market Research 2021-2030 Featuring Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Canonical, Debian, IBM, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, SUSE  Yahoo Eurosport UK

In his 1988 book, Object-Oriented Software Construction, professor Bertrand Meyer defined the Open-Closed Principle as:

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Fancy a handheld Linux PC that runs Windows apps, sports a custom AMD Zen APU and a touch screen?  The Register

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