Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option

Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.

KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024

The KDE team are hard at work to make the next major release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, my current favourite desktop and the one used on the Steam Deck. Now, we actually have something of a proper roadmap to Plasma 6.0.

Steering wheel manager Oversteer v0.8.0 adds new hardware support

Got a steering wheel and want to manage it on Linux for all your racing and trucking games? Oversteer is what you need and a new release went out recently.

OpenRA for classic RTS gaming version 20231010 is out now

Turns out my RSS reader broke and so I missed a bunch of great stuff recently, like a brand new stable public release of the excellent OpenRA game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.

Wine 8.18 brings more Wayland work

Wine 8.18 is the latest development release of Wine now available, bringing with it the continued work to provide full Wayland support but still plenty of work ahead on that.

kolektiva.social

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#189 Lead Developer Of Budgie Desktop | Joshua Strobl

Joshua Strobl once involved in Solus project then not involved then involved again but more importantly the Budgie desktop is here to talk about the current ...

Godot 4.2 beta 1 is out now for testing

The Godot team are preparing the next release of their free and open source game engine, with Godot 4.2 beta 1 now available for anyone to jump in and test it.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.9 release

As usual, after a month of hard work, fheroes2 Resurrection Team released a new 1.0.9 version of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine, filled with updates, fixes and new features!

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Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now

After a longer period of waiting than usual, the Mesa 23.2.1 driver release is out now as the first in the Mesa 23.2 series.

#187 Bringing Accent Color Support To Linux | Lea/lleyton

Today we have Lea otherwise known as lleyton on the show, one the main people involved in starting up the the XDG Accent Color portal merge request, this I h...

#187 Bringing Accent Color Support To Linux | Lea/lleyton

Today we have Lea otherwise known as lleyton on the show, one the main people involved in starting up the the XDG Accent Color portal merge request, this I h...

#187 Bringing Accent Color Support To Linux | Lea/lleyton

Today we have Lea otherwise known as lleyton on the show, one the main people involved in starting up the the XDG Accent Color portal merge request, this I h...

Steam Play tool for Native Linux gaming 'Luxtorpeda' v67 out now

Luxtorpeda has a new release out which is mostly upgrades behind the scenes, but worth an upgrade to get the best experience. Read on for more on what's changed and what Luxtorpeda does.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

GNOME 45 released with dynamic workspace indicator, camera indicator and much more

GNOME 45 has just been released and overall it looks like a rather nice release for this desktop environment, so here's a short run over what's new.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.8 out now

A fresh 1.0.8 version of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine has been released recently and here're some tips about what's new in the fheroes2 project.

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri gets an in-development open source remake

Seems like another classic is getting revived with the power of open source. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri from 1999 has a remake in progress called GLSMAC.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation OpenRCT2 gets a new title theme

The team and community behind OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 have a brand new update out which includes some fun changes like a whole new title theme.

Wine 8.15 is out now, plus more Wine Wayland work submitted

Two bits of Wine news for this weekend with the development release Wine 8.15 now available, and more work for Wine Wayland is incoming too.

Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features

Budgie 10.8 was released recently, bringing plenty of enhancements to this interesting desktop environment so here's a little run over what's new.

Linux kernel 6.5 released

Here it is, on August 27th the latest work by a great many developers was released with Linus Torvalds announcing the Linux kernel 6.5.

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Accent color on settings portal by lleyton · Pull Request #815 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

Accent Colors Introduction Accent colors provide a way for users to personalize their desktop in a simple, developer-friendly, and effective way. Throughout the community there has been a general i...

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14.

#178 Linux Won't Save You From Bad Choices | Bigpod

Today we have the one and only Bigpod on the show, I've known about him since the days he ran the Distrotube discord but he's got himself involved in plenty ...

Issues · t-lo/mailserver

Dockerised mailserver. Contribute to t-lo/mailserver development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dear Red Hat... featuring Jeff Geerling (Changelog & Friends #7)

Red Hat’s decision to lock down RHEL sources behind a subscription paywall was met with much ire and opened opportunity for Oracle to get a smack in and SUSE to announce a fork with $10 million behind it.

Linux Mint 21.2 is out now with app upgrades, artwork tweaks, login improvements

Linux Mint 21.2 is out now as the latest distribution built on top of Ubuntu, coming with various careful improvements to the base software included.

CodeWeavers blog about their Linux / Steam Deck work on Proton with PooShooter

PooShooter: Toilet Invaders, yes it's a real game and we all had a bit of a chuckle when we saw Valve noted it fixed in a Proton changelog recently.

Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help

With Godot Engine moving over to being supported by the Godot Foundation directly, they've begun pushing for people to support their efforts via their new funding platform inspired by Blender.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu makes some big progress in the latest report

The incredible team building the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have a new progress report out for June 2023 and it's quite a doozy. Yes June, they're running over previous work.