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Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 08/02/2020 - 08:49
While some platforms like Netmarketshare have reported increases month-over-month for Linux desktop usage, that doesn't appear to be translating similarly to the Linux gaming market-share, or at least not at the rate Steam is growing on Windows and macOS. Valve has just published their July 2020 numbers that are part of the Steam Survey...

Linux 5.9 Adding New Knob To Control Default Boost Value For Real-Time Workloads

Phoronix - Sun, 08/02/2020 - 06:19
Primarily driven currently by Arm big.LITTLE use-cases like high-end smartphones where you may be running on battery and not want to boost the CPU performance too high for real-time (RT) tasks, Linux 5.9 is adding new capabilities around setting the default boost value...

FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer

Phoronix - Sun, 08/02/2020 - 00:00
Linux game porter Ethan Lee who also develops FNA-XNA today released FAudio 20.08 as the open-source XAudio re-implementation...

Debian 10.5 Released To Address The GRUB2 BootHole Vulnerability, Other Security Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 22:07
Debian 10.5 is out today as the latest point releasr to "Buster" in shipping the latest security and bug fixes...

KDE Developers End July With More Improvements For Plasma 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 20:18
Even with everything going on in the world around the coronavirus and warm summer temperatures, KDE developers continue making improvements on their desktop stack, including around Wayland support...

Wine 5.14 Brings Initial Version Of The Webdings Font

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 19:03
Wine 5.14 debuted late on Friday night as the newest bi-weekly development release with being less than a half-year to go now until the debut of Wine 6.0 stable...

Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 15:03
In addition to the Weston 9.0 Alpha compositor, this week also brought Wayland-Utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this collection of Wayland utilities/tools...

8 tips for running a virtual hackathon

opensource.com - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 15:00

Hackathons are events where developers, product managers, designers, and others come together to tackle problems over a short time period. They have become increasingly popular over the last 15 years after OpenBSD ran the first hackathon in June 1999.

These events provide several benefits—greater engagement across the community, innovation and new ideas, awareness for the organizers, and networking opportunities for participants.


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Setting Up Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Tecmint - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 14:31
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is an Open Source, collaborative platform for email servers, developed in two editions, Open Source edition (Free) and Network Edition (Paid), which provides services such as LDAP, SMTP, POP and

The Beautiful + Linux-Friendly Unigine 2.12 Engine Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2020 - 12:08
The Unigine Engine appears to be having great success in the engineering and simulation space more so than for the competitive game engine space, but in any case Unigine 2.12 is now out with this visually stunning engine delivering even more life-like visuals while continuing to be Linux-friendly...

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