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Xwayland Video Bridge created to improve Linux screen sharing

By Liam Dawe,
With the move between X11 and Wayland still ongoing, and likely won't finish for years, problems keep coming up like screen sharing but XwaylandVideoBridge may help solve this.

Proton Experimental fixes up Call of Duty: Black Ops III videos

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh small update to Proton Experimental has landed on March 22nd, here's what's new and changed for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker

By Liam Dawe,
One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition 2.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a great front-end open source app for managing various emulators. A big 2.0 release went up recently too!

Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick.

FOSS strategy game OpenHV gets a release two years in the making

By Liam Dawe,
Do any of you remember OpenHV? Back in 2020, it was announced as an OpenRA-based free and open source RTS, based on designs from Daniel Cook that never made it into a game planned to be called Hard Vacuum but now it's here and it has a massive upgrade.

Free and open source party game Starship Olympics hits Alpha

By Liam Dawe,
Need a fresh party game with simple controls and plenty of mini-games to play? Starship Olympics is free, open source and worth a go.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update

By Liam Dawe,
It's fast, it gives you six degrees of freedom (6DOF) and it's open source too! Fly Dangerous just had it's second big upgrade since entering Early Access.

Vangers the open source classic from 1998 continues to be upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Vangers is a thoroughly weird racing role-playing adventure originally released in 1998, and it's still being upgraded.

Flathub in 2023, they have some big plans

By Liam Dawe,
Robert McQueen, CEO of the Endless OS Foundation and GNOME Board President, has given a big update on what's going on with Flathub. Sadly, the Plaintext Group recently turned their funding proposal down.

Wine development release v8.3 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Wine, the translations layer that allows Windows apps and games to run on other operating systems, that forms part of Steam Play Proton has version 8.3 out now.

Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.

Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe,
After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their "Mercury" hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use.

OpenRA gets a big new stable release, lots of fun for classic RTS fans

By Liam Dawe,
After multiple testing releases, OpenRA for the playing the classics Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 has now released a major upgrade.

Proton Experimental fixes up Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, No Man's Sky

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental from Valve has been upgraded fixing up some more problematic games for Steam Deck and Linux Desktop.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions

By Liam Dawe,
Making the rounds recently is a proposal being made to add in payments, donations and subscriptions options to Flathub.

Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer

By Liam Dawe,
Back late last year, Collabora developer Alexandros Frantzis blogged about a whole lot of work going into getting full Wayland support for Wine and now a big first step towards it being included in Wine is happening.

ScummVM 2.7.0 'The Real Slim Shader' supports even more classics

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM 2.7.0, The Real Slim Shader, is officially out now bringing more compatibility for retro titles to modern platforms so here's what's new.

Open source tabletop game simulator gets a second Beta release

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and getting better all the time. Tabletop Club has a fresh Beta release available with a whole lot of fixes and improvements.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.
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