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OBS Studio 30.1 out now with AV1 support for VA-API, PipeWire Video Capture gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/obs-…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linux kernel 6.8 is out now with lots of new features gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/linu…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
OpenRCT2 for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 adds Ukrainian language, partial underground building gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/open…
#FOSS #OpenSource #RollerCoasterTycoon2
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/open…
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.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Lots of exciting updates coming to the free & open source RPG Veloren gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/lots…
Lots of exciting updates coming to the free & open source RPG Veloren
Veloren, the free and open source action-adventure role-playing voxel game made in Rust keeps evolving. Since its last public v0.15 release in July 2023, much has changed and lots of improvements were made so far.nwildner (GamingOnLinux)
The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/the-…
The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Free and open source evolution sim Thrive gets big new gameplay features in v0.6.5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/free…
#FOSS #OpenSource #Linux
Free and open source evolution sim Thrive gets big new gameplay features in v0.6.5
Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim from Revolutionary Games Studio that's currently in-development, and a new release has rolled out with v0.6.5 bringing some gameplay additions.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/nvid…
NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs
A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.nwildner (GamingOnLinux)
Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/cros…
#GameDev #FOSS #OpenSource #Vulkan #SDL
Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API
With development work ongoing for SDL3, some recent exciting improvements include a Vulkan Render backend and a camera API.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hey Fedi! We're hosting a panel at SCALE 21x with some of the major players in the Linux desktop ecosystem to discuss where we go from here, any big ideas you want us to discuss?
Here's our list as of now: outline.fyralabs.com/s/8f1ce88…
And the abstract: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/p…
Post your ideas in the replies!
#foss #linux #oss #opensource #gnome #kde #stardustxr #stardust #vanillaos #xdg #scale21x
Topics
Most of the questions in the document will not be covered. The questions are meant to serve as discussion starters for each topic to be used as the conversation permits.outline.fyralabs.com
The next beta version of #Signal will be version 7.0.0.
There's a good reason for the round number. This will be the first version where usernames and phone number privacy are available outside of the staging environment.
From this version on, you'll be able to talk to people on Signal without revealing your phone number, and also, you may use Signal without revealing to people who have your number saved that you do.
This is huge.
github.com/signalapp/Signal-An…
#Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #PNP
Comparing v6.47.4...v7.0.0 · signalapp/Signal-Android
A private messenger for Android. Contribute to signalapp/Signal-Android development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/dosb…
DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and modern development practices, giving you the great compatibility of classic games with plenty of extras. A new release is available with DOSBox Staging 0.81.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Wine 9.2 brings Mono updates, system tray fixes and more gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/wine…
#Wine #FOSS #OpenSource
Wine 9.2 brings Mono updates, system tray fixes and more
Another development release of the Windows compatibility layer is here with Wine 9.2, bringing with it some new features and fixes so here's what's changed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/linu…
#Linux #LinuxGaming #FOSS #OpenSource
Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
MangoHud is the fantastic tool you can use to display various amounts of performance information while gaming on Linux, it's also what the Steam Deck uses for the HUD too. A new version 0.7.1 is out now!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Godot Engine 4.3 will have official Wayland support gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/godo…
#Godot #GodotEngine #FOSS
Godot Engine 4.3 will have official Wayland support
2024 is clearly the year of Wayland on the desktop, and now Godot Engine will have official Wayland support with an upcoming new release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/qual…
#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access
Well, here's another remind to keep your PC up to date. Despite Linux being know for security, it's not perfect (no software is) and researchers at Qualys discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/game…
#Gaming #OpenSource #FOSS #GameBoy #Emulation
Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio
GB Studio is a free and open source cross-platform game engine, that allows you to make fully-features games for the classic Nintendo Game Boy.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Misschien iets voor @minbzk?
#nextcloud #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #overheid #opensource #FOSS #PubliekeWaarden
Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/wine…
Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
Following the stable Wine 9.0 release recently, we've just now had the Wine 9.1 development release kicking off another year and starting the road to Wine 10.0 since they do one stable Wine release each year.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Godot Engine gets a free Nintendo Switch port for game devs gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/godo…
#GodotEngine #FOSS #GameDev #Switch
Godot Engine gets a free Nintendo Switch port for game devs
Here's one less reason for game developers to skip over using the free and open source Godot Engine, as it now has a free port available to bring games over to the Nintendo Switch.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
LibreOffice 24.2 RC2 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
VCMI, open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III v1.4.3 brings lots of bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/vcmi…
#HoMMIII #OpenSource #FOSS #Gaming
VCMI, open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III v1.4.3 brings lots of bug fixes
If you want to play the classic Heroes of Might and Magic III, the open source engine VCMI is easily the best way on modern platforms and version 1.4.3 is out now with plenty of bug fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
time to ring up my homeboy Karl Marx
Source: The "Screenshots > Good content" section of the Flathub quality AppData guidelines. Yes, actually.
docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-…
#foss #linux #flathub #flatpak
Quality guidelines | Flathub Documentation
The following guidelines are not required for submission to Flathub, but are best practices we recommend and consider for curation and promotion.docs.flathub.org
GPU Reshape is a fancy new open source tool for developers gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/gpu-…
#FOSS #OpenSource #GameDev #Vulkan
GPU Reshape is a fancy new open source tool for developers
A fresh announcement for developers today is GPU Reshape, a free and open source tool that could be really useful for game developers working with Vulkan and DirectX 12 to deal with potentially undefined behaviour.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GStreamer gets funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund to rewrite parts in Rust gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/gstr…
GStreamer gets funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund to rewrite parts in Rust
While GStreamer may not be something that generates a lot of headlines, it's a much loved and well-used bit of open source tech for handling media on Linux and many other systems and it just got a big funding boost from the Sovereign Tech Fund.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/wine…
#Wine #Linux #FOSS #LinuxGaming #OpenSource
Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux
It's here! The official release of Wine 9.0 has now been made available, bringing the next-generation of Windows compatibility to Linux for apps and games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
X.Org and Xwayland get new releases due to security issues gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/xorg…
#Linux #Security #FOSS #OpenSource
X.Org and Xwayland get new releases due to security issues
Here's another reminder that checking regularly for updates it's always a good thing, because there's new releases available for both the X.Org X and Xwayland due to multiple reported security issues.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open source PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck 'chiaki4deck' gets a big upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/open…
#SteamDeck #PlayStation #RemotePlay #FOSS
Open source PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck 'chiaki4deck' gets a big upgrade
Want to do some Remote Play from a PlayStation onto a Steam Deck? The unofficial community-made chiaki4deck is exactly what you want, and the latest release brings some great sounding enhancements to make it easier to use.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
In case you missed it I alongside DT was a guest on this weeks episode of Bryan Lunduke's Untitled Nerdy Chat Show, feel free to go check it out down below #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource
Video: lunduke.locals.com/post/511144…
Audio: lunduke.substack.com/p/distrot…
DistroTube & Brodie Robertson
Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Jan 10, 2024Bryan Lunduke (The Lunduke Journal of Technology)
Unofficial Peertube version of what's new in Nextcloud files, for people who prefer FOSS decentralized platforms:
tube.io18.top/videos/watch/efc…
#Nextcloud #Peertube #NextcloudFiles #NextcloudHub7 #FOSS #Decentralization
Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
#Linux #FOSS #OpenSource
Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever
Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.7 on Sunday, 7th January 2024 and as it turns out it's one of the largest releases ever.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Do you guys remember that @thunderbird funding campaign, well today we have one of the people who caused it happen on the show @ryanleesipes #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=3BZbrpMyXQ…
Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
#201 Reviving Thunderbird From Near Destruction | Ryan Sipes
Today we have Ryan Sipes the Business Development & Community Manager of Thunderbird on the show who was crucial to the recent funding increases seen by the ...YouTube
Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
#Linux #LinuxMint #OpenSource #FOSS
Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5
For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/jazz…
#FOSS #Retro #RetroGaming
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a much loved classic that continues to live on thanks to the Jazz² Resurrection project, with a new release that went live recently bringing Flatpak support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/kde-…
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-…
#RPG #Retro #Daggerfall #FOSS
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now
Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/scum…
#ScummVM #Retro #RetroGaming #FOSS #Linux
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/godo…
#Godot #FOSS #GameDev #GameEngine
Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/chec…
#NVIDIA #Vulkan #FOSS #OpenSource
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/kde-…
KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)