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Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation speak up on Stallman's return

By Liam Dawe,
Recently a big controversy surrounding the Free Software Community appeared and cut deep into the community when it was announced without warning that Richard Stallman (RMS) had returned.

Check out the Linux system specs needed for the Metro Exodus port releasing April 14

By Liam Dawe,
Metro Exodus will be officially releasing for Linux on April 14, ahead of the release 4A Games and Deep Silver have put out some new system requirements.

Get three months FREE of Stadia Pro thanks to Lenovo

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get some free Pro time on Google Stadia? Here's a chance for you if you act quick enough as Lenovo are giving away 3 months of Stadia Pro for FREE.

Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech 'Raze' has a 1.0 release with Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
Raze is a fresh attempt to bring together many different games under one roof including Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior and Exhumed/Powerslave.

Grape times ahead with the release of Wine 6.6 noting plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
No wine-ing about the puns please. Jokes aside, the tasty compatibility tech that is Wine has a new development release available today with Wine 6.6.

Xwayland work for hardware accelerated NVIDIA support has been merged in

By Liam Dawe,
Another exciting moment for fans of Wayland and the future of Linux, especially if you're an NVIDIA user, as the work to provide hardware accelerated rendering for NVIDIA GPUs was merged in for Xwayland.

Stadia announces even more games coming, Borderlands 3 free for a few days on Pro

By Liam Dawe,
Google continues announcing more and more games for their cloud gaming / game streaming service Stadia, with a bunch of indie games from their Stadia Makers program coming. Plus new releases out now and free play days for Borderlands 3. Time for another Stadia round-up!

Time to get testing Ubuntu 21.04 ahead of release, plus Canonical loses another face

By Liam Dawe,
We seem to have missed the actual Ubuntu Testing Week but a late reminder is better than none at all right? With Ubuntu 21.04 coming soon it's time to report the bugs.

US Supreme Court sides with Google against Oracle about copying APIs being 'fair use'

By Liam Dawe,
It's being widely reported today that in the decade-long battle of Google vs Oracle that the US Supreme Court has now finally ruled in Google's favour. This is huge, for Linux and Linux Gaming too.

GodotCon returns online for Godot Engine in July, submit your talk now

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in game development, open source and Godot Engine? GodotCon is planned to return in July.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 28

By Liam Dawe,
We're back and actually on time for a change! Welcome back to the Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 28.

OBS Studio 27.0 RC1 out with Wayland support and browser docking on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
What looks like it will be a massive release for Linux users, OBS Studio has begun the release procedure for OBS Studio 27.0 with it having a first Release Candidate out now and it's huge.

Steam Play Proton 6.3 is out now plus a Proton Experimental update (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for a long weekend testing out the latest Steam Play Proton compatibility layer? Good news! Valve announced the release of Proton 6.3-1 along with a Proton Experimental update. UPDATED: 07/04/21.

A look back over some of the most-read articles from March 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for March 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

Stadia Pro for April revealed, HITMAN gets a free starter pack and plenty more coming

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another round-up of news for Stadia, the cloud gaming / game streaming service from Google with plenty more games coming along with some out now. There's also a reveal of what you will get in April with Stadia Pro.

NVIDIA releases the 465.19.01 Beta driver for Linux, looks like more Wayland work coming

By Liam Dawe,
Get ready to do some more testing NVIDIA users, as a fresh Beta just went up for their mainline Linux drivers with 465.19.01 now available. Plus, news for pass-through on virtual machines.

Windows compatibility tool Wine 6.5 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Not an emulator but a compatibility tool that translates Windows calls into language Linux can understand, Wine 6.5 is officially out now as the latest development release.

What have you been playing recently, come tell your thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
It's the weekend and it has again been a while since we had a community talking point article, so here we are!

Collabora announce PanVk, an open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost

By Liam Dawe,
Open source consulting firm Collabora are certainly busy. While they work with Steam owner Valve on various things, they also work in other areas of Linux like driver development - their latest being PanVk.

New OBS Plugin Offers Game Capture Solution on Wayland (for Vulkan renderers)

By Kithop,
One of the issues cropping up in the migration from Xorg to Wayland is the desire to capture part or all of your screen for recording and/or streaming to others. There's a new plugin coming for OBS Studio to help with this.
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