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Valve/CodeWeavers Releases Proton 5.13-1 With More Windows Games Running On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 04:46
The Wine-based Proton development has been disappointingly quiet in recent weeks but fortunately it's alive and ticking with today's Proton 5.13-1 release for powering Valve's Steam Play to run many modern Windows games gracefully on Linux...

Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 02:51
Following last week's release of Chrome 86, Google has promoted its Chrome 87 web browser to beta...

Intel Finally Kills Gen10/Cannonlake-Specific Graphics Code From Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:22
Given that Intel never shipped a production "Cannon Lake" CPU with its Gen10 graphics enabled, Intel's open-source driver developers have finally removed all Gen10-specific code from their Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers in Mesa...

KWinFT 5.20 With Aims For Better Wayland/X11 Experience Than KDE Plasma 5.20's KWin

Phoronix - Thu, 10/15/2020 - 23:24
Following this week's KDE Plasma 5.20 release, KWinFT 5.20 has been released as the fork of KWin and other select components in aiming to offer a better experience...

Intel Rewrites Old Haswell-Era Audio Driver Due To Bugs, Plus DG1 Audio For Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Thu, 10/15/2020 - 22:09
The sound subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 5.10 kernel with some interesting changes and new hardware support...

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