#226 The Great Open Source Debate | FUTO

A few weeks back I did a video on FUTO's open source definition, this was followed up by a response from FUTO and further videos from me, and today we have M...

Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

Flathub continues growing with over 2 billion downloads recorded

Flathub, the main front-end for Flatpak packages, which serves various applications and games to many different Linux distributions and Steam Deck has surpassed 2 billion downloads.

Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.

DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans

VR fans rejoice! The GNOME project has finally pulled in DRM lease protocol support today, something required for getting VR under GNOME on Wayland working well.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds endosymbiosis, toxin customization, day / night cycle

Thrive just keeps on getting more interesting. An open source evolution sim powered by Godot that allows you to take control of a species from its first steps as a tiny organism.

This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2

Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but …

Public Money, Public Code

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software

Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments.

Programs | Sovereign Tech Fund

The Sovereign Tech Fund is currently active in three program areas: general funding for open source digital infrastructure, the Bug Resilience Program,…

#219 Should I Become A Fedora Linux User? | Neal Gompa

It's been a while since I last had Neal Gompa back on the show but he's once again to talk about Fedora Linux, what's going on with Fedora KDE, how Fedora ch...

Heroes of Might and Magic III open source build gets initial gamepad support

VCMI, the cross-platform open source game engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III has another fresh release out and they've been working on hooking up gamepad support.

Wine 9.8 released with Mono updates, ARM improvements

Another biweekly development release for the Windows compatibility layer is here, with Wine 9.8 now available.

#218 The Era Of KDE Plasma 6 Is Here | Nate Graham

Today we have Nate Graham back on the show again, this time to talk about of course KDE Plasma 6, my experience with it and everything else surrounding the l...

Open source evolution sim Thrive gets upgraded to Godot 4

A game engine upgrade across a major version is quite a big thing, and it initially proved a little problematic for the open source evolution sim Thrive but it is done.

#217 Most Distros Are Just Config Scripts | Dark Xero

The last time he was on Dark Xero was still developing his distro Xero Linux but since then he decided to drop it and instead shift over to being a post inst...

Flathub for Linux apps has been given quite the makeover

Flathub is my favourite place to grab various apps for Linux and Steam Deck and it just had a bit of a makeover and it's looking fancy.

Wine 9.7 released with ARM improvements

The Wine 9.7 development release is out now bringing with it the usual bug fixes, plus some ARM platform improvements for this Windows compatibility layer used in Proton.

Descent 3 has been made open source

Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

Asymmetrical indirect control RTS game Roboden now Steam Deck Verified

How about a free game to add to your library? Roboden is an asymmetrical indirect control real-time strategy game about robot colonies and it's now Steam Deck Verified.

Descent 3 has been made open source

Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre

Inspired by the core gameplay of Minecraft, the name MineClone2 was not a particularly good one and it seems the developers were aware and so it's gone through a rebrand to be now called VoxeLibre.

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue

There's been an urgent security bulletin sent out in a few places today in the Linux sphere that relates to the XZ tools and libraries with liblzma, as certain version have been compromised.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now

It's free, it's open source and it's looking good! Veloren is a action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world and a brand new release is out with update 0.16.

SDL 3 has a first preview release out with HDR and Vulkan for the 2D rendering API

Fun times ahead for game developers, as the very popular SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has a preview of the upcoming SDL 3 now available for feedback and testing.

MangoHud manager GOverlay 1.1.1 released upgrading to QT6

GOverlay, the app you can use if you want a UI to manage overlays like MangoHud has a new release out that upgrades its insides and fixes some bugs.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 9.5 released

Another two weeks are done and so a fresh update of the Windows compatibility layer is live with the Wine 9.5 development release.

STF Open Source Fellowship

CoreCtrl adds AMD RX 7000 series fan curve controls, Intel CPU temperature sensors

CoreCtrl is a useful application giving you a full GUI for adjusting your CPU and GPU profiles on Linux, and the latest release has expanded the hardware features supported.

OBS Studio 30.1 out now with AV1 support for VA-API, PipeWire Video Capture

OBS Studio has a brand new release available with some fancy sounding features, making it still the absolute best and easiest way to record and livestream video on Linux.

Linux kernel 6.8 is out now with lots of new features

Linux kernel 6.8 has been released now by Linus Torvalds and as usual, there's absolutely tons of changes and new features.

OpenRCT2 for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 adds Ukrainian language, partial underground building

OpenRCT2 continues to keep the dream of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 alive, with a new release v0.4.9 now available adding in some new features and plenty of bug fixes.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.