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What started off as Lindows twenty years ago as an easy-to-use Linux-based operating system with great Wine integration and easy application support but then changed to Linspire following a Microsoft lawsuit has had quite a journey. PC/OpenSystems LLC revived Linspire after a multi-year gap following the closure of Xandros and since then it's been a rather peculiar platform. Today they are now shifting focus once again...

The 7 Best Open-Source Paint Alternatives for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 6 Best Android Emulators for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Create a VirtualBox virtual machine backup on a Linux host for security  TechRepublic

Wine developers have popped open a new bi-weekly development snapshot of this software that allows Windows games/applications to run on Linux and macOS along with being what powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver...

Intel's Compute-Runtime stack for providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero compute for their graphics hardware under Linux is out with a new release...

For those making use of Radeon graphics on Linux with an X.Org-based environment and not using the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX but rather than the xf86-video-amdgpu driver, AMD today put out a rare update to that diminishing driver component...

Install SonarQube on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Securely Transfer Files on Linux With sftp  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux eBPF bug gets root privileges on Ubuntu - Exploit released  BleepingComputer

July ’21 Newsletter  Security Boulevard

AMD driver engineers have submitted their latest batch of AMDGPU feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window opening up in about one month's time. With this latest pull request the big addition is the new "Cyan Skillfish" GPU support...

VMware Hits A Nasty Performance Regression With Linux 5.13  Phoronix

VMware has found the Linux 5.13 kernel that was released as stable one month ago has led to a serious performance regression for their ESXi enterprise hypervisor...

Install balenaetcher using repository on Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Microsoft: This unusual Windows and Linux malware does everything it can to stay on your network  ZDNet

1. Steam Beta Brings Linux Improvements Ahead of Steam Deck  Tom's Hardware
2. Latest Steam Client Beta Adds a Storage Manager, Linux Improvements  PCMag
3. Steam Beta Brings New Downloads Page, Linux Container Updates  Phoronix
4. No more Linux games - developers switching to Valve's Proton  AfterDawn
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Steam Beta Brings Linux Improvements Ahead of Steam Deck  Tom's Hardware

Years ago particularly when the open-source Linux GPU drivers were in their infancy it was known in some cases having to fake/spoof the GPU driver name or model in order to workaround artificial bugs / problematic code paths targeted to a particular OpenGL driver or even to achieve greater performance. With a new Mesa merge request called "Unleash the dragon!", this is still very much a problem in 2021 even now in the Android space...

For those wondering what has been going on in the Xubuntu camp for this Xfce desktop spin of Ubuntu, a Xubuntu 21.10 development update was shared concerning package changes and other happenings...