You can now use the Discord Overlay on Linux thanks to a new community project
Once again the developer community is picking up the slack where the official stuff isn't working on Linux. This time it's the turn of the Discord Overlay.
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Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more
MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.
Endless Sky, a free and open source space trading & combat game expands with a new update
Endless Sky, a free and open source classic 2D space game continues expanding with the first stable release in quite some time.
Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release
OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.
FNA 20.05 (XNA4 reimplementation) is out with a brand new 3D graphics library 'FNA3D'
Ethan Lee, porter of many games to Linux (and macOS) and the creator of the XNA4 reimplementation FNA today announced the release of FNA 20.05 and a brand new 3D graphics library FNA3D.
Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" due in June with fractional HiDPI scaling, brighter icons and better performance
The team behind popular Linux distribution Linux Mint have a monthly update out to go over what their plans are and their funding, and it's all sounding great.
Linux distribution Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS from System76 is out now with awesome Auto Tiling
Hardware vendor System76 have just released Pop!_OS 20.04, their Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 20.04 with all their fancy tweaks and it's a brilliant release.
Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR
Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.
If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4
Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.
Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.
Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released
The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.
Free first-person shooter 'Tomatenquark' releasing soon based on Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Coming soon to Steam Early Access, Tomatenquark is another attempt to revive a classic free and open source first-person shooter.
Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store
While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.
Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up
OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.
Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support
Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.
Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia released with Xfce, KDE and GNOME editions - Snap and Flatpak support included
Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia has been released today, as the latest major refresh for this Arch Linux based distribution.
Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops
As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.
Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released
Today is the big day for Canonical and their partners. Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' is officially released as their new LTS (Long Term Support) edition along with other desktop flavours like Ubuntu MATE.
Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs
Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.
The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override
Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.