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Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 07:28
Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out a release candidate of Proton 5.0-10 as the newest update to their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 06:30
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee formally signed off today on allowing Fedora 33 desktop variants to default to using the Btrfs file-system rather than the existing EXT4 default or other alternatives...

FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 05:27
The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...

Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2020 - 00:58
The Matrox G200 series desktop graphics cards released in the late 90's are now seeing open-source DRM kernel driver support emerge in 2020...

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