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DXVK 1.5.5 Released With Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 23:41
DXVK 1.5.5 is out this weekend as a big update to this Direct3D-over-Vulkan translation layer widely used by Linux gamers in running Windows games with decent speed...

Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 20:29
Following yesterday's Wine 5.3 release, Wine-Staging 5.3 was issued as the latest testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 5.3 is still carrying 800+ extra patches compared to upstream Wine while it has updated its Event FD synchronization code and also added one important addition this cycle...

Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 19:57
In 2020 we certainly didn't expect the Linux Gaming Publishing website to appear back online, years after their single server failed and ultimately faded away as one of the promising Linux game porters built up following the collapse of Loki Software...

GNOME launches a new GTK site, the Linux Foundation on security vulnerabilities, OSI board elections, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 16:02

In this edition of our open source news roundup, GNOME beautifies the GTK website, the Linux Foundation’s released a report on security vulnerabilities, the FSF announces a new code-hosting site and the OSI board of directors is decided next week! 


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Genode OS 20.02 Released With Continued Improvements To Sculpt OS

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 15:52
The Genode operating system framework is out with a new release along with its general purpose Sculpt OS operating system...

How to Append Text to End of File in Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 14:26
While working with configuration files in Linux, sometimes you need to append text such as configuration parameters to an existing file. To append simply means to add text to the end or bottom of...

Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 13:05
While the Qt5 tool-kit on Wayland is in fairly good shape in recent times, the Qt Wayland module that provides the Wayland platform abstraction and helpers for assembly Qt-based Wayland compositors could run the risk of regressing...

The $199 Pinebook Pro ARM Laptop Is Closer To Running On The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 08:33
For those that have managed to get their hands on the Pinebook Pro as the $199 ARM 64-bit laptop powered by a Rockchip RK3399 SoC and with 4GB of RAM, 1080p panel, 64GB eMMC, and other decent features for the price, mainline Linux kernel support could be in order possibly even for Linux 5.7...

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