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Framework put up the source code for their Embedded Controller firmware

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to put their money where their mouth is, the team at Framework are keeping things open and they've just announced the source code release for their Embedded Controller firmware.

AMD Ryzen DeskMini UM700 announced with Manjaro Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Manjaro Linux folks have teamed up with Minisforum to bring a very small but quite mighty system with the DeskMini UM700 × Manjaro Linux.

Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub and Flatpak packages are the future of Linux apps, according to more people, and GNOME are continuing to invest in it. They have some big plans to improve it too.

Game devs don't seem convinced on the Steam Deck from the GDC 2022 survey

By Liam Dawe,
The annual game developer survey from GDC is out now for 2022 and it has some interesting insights as usual. That includes thoughts on the upcoming Steam Deck, with it clearly not selling everyone.

Steering Wheel manager Oversteer expands supported wheels in 0.7.0

By Liam Dawe,
Oversteer continues to be the best way to setup and configure Steering Wheels on Linux. Oversteer 0.7.0 is out now and expands support for more wheels.

KDE begin the 15-Minute Bug Initiative to make Plasma great

By Liam Dawe,
KDE Plasma is a pretty frelling great desktop environment - but couldn't it be better? The KDE team have begun the previously announced 15-Minute Bug Initiative.

RetroArch need your feedback on their Open-Hardware planned for 2022

By Liam Dawe,
RetroArch announced back in February 2021 their plans for the Open-Hardware project. This was to bring an easy way for you to play your legally owned physical games directly in emulators and they have an update on their plans.

dbrand are cooking up something big for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
It's not entirely clear what dbrand has planned, however their team are clearly cooking up something with a teaser being posted on Twitter.

Wine 7.0 is officially out now bringing better compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
Just over a year since the last major version bump, Alexandre Julliard has announced the final release of Wine 7.0.

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard

By Liam Dawe,
A bit of wider industry news today. News which completely blows my mind - Microsoft are out to acquire Activision Blizzard.

Valve continues tweaking their new Store Hubs for tags

By Liam Dawe,
With Valve's latest store updates experiment that's ongoing, they gave a new look to Store Hubs for all the various tags and they just release an update with plenty of tweaks.

Collabora pulls in Jason Ekstrand to work on Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Jason Ekstrand, a name that many big Linux fans will know, who previously worked at Intel until very recently has announced today the move to open source consulting firm Collabora.

GOG finally update their store browsing with new filters

By Liam Dawe,
Game store GOG.com has finally updated the browsing experience for those of you who prefer getting your games there.

Wii U emulator Cemu plans to go open source and support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Most emulators nowadays have their source code nicely open, and the vast majority of them fully support Linux too but Cemu has been a bit of a holdout. Not for long though.

Open source voice-chat levels up with Mumble 1.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you not wanting to use the likes of Discord for voice-chat, there’s also Mumble which is a free, open source, low latency, high quality voice chat application

Plasma 5.24 Beta goes live with protection to stop Discover removing Plasma

By Liam Dawe,
The latest release of the KDE Plasma desktop is close with the Plasma 5.24 Beta going live now with plenty of new features and fixes for this customizable environment.

Proton Experimental pulls in newer DXVK to help God of War on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A small update landed last night for Proton Experimental with a main aim of helping the recent God of War release, which has been running quite nicely already.

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release

By Liam Dawe,
While Discord continues to not support Linux with their official overlay, there is at least Discover, which helpfully gives you some options to show chatters on your screen.

Steam Deck on track for the end of February

By Liam Dawe,
Good news, following the previous delay and even with the pandemic and global shortages Valve has announced that the Steam Deck is still on track to ship by the end of February.

Proton Experimental fixes up Sea of Thieves voice chat

By Liam Dawe,
Today a small bug-fix update went out for Proton Experimental, as Valve continues readying it up ahead of the launch of their handheld Steam Deck.
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