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Linux Format has a Collabora dev talk about Steam's Linux container 'Pressure Vessel'

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Format issue 267 went out today (not affiliated) and in it there's a rather wonderful interview with Simon McVittie, a software engineer at Collabora who also works on things for Valve to do with Steam on Linux.

Unity Technologies officially files to go public with an IPO

By Liam Dawe,
Unity Technologies, creator on the Unity game engine has now formally applied for IPO (initial public offering) and the documents are pretty revealing.

Devs quit Skullgirls and Indivisible studio Lab Zero Games, issues with studio owner

By Liam Dawe,
It's never fun to have to write about things like this but it needs to be highlighted. Lab Zero Games, developer on titles like Skullgirls and Indivisible seem to be a sinking ship.

Ubisoft renews their funding commitment to Blender

By Liam Dawe,
The good news for the open source application Blender just keeps flowing, after Unity announced their support for funding Blender only recently, now Ubisoft will be continuing with their funding as they've renewed their relationship with Blender.

Blender pulls in another funding partner with Unity

By Liam Dawe,
Joining many other companies that seemingly woke up to actually supporting free and open source software, Unity has now pledged funding towards Blender.

Libretro / RetroArch were hacked, wiping some repositories

By Liam Dawe,
In an announcement, the Libretro / RetroArch mentioned how the Libretro / RetroArch organization on GitHub was attacked by hackers and they managed to do quite a bit of damage.

A weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently

By Liam Dawe,
Another week has dragged on and here we are, the weekend. It's time to go over a few little bits and find out what our readers have been playing this week.

The weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently

By Liam Dawe,
What's that? It's the weekend? It can't be already can it? Yes. It's time for the weekend chat about what we've been playing and what you've been playing.

Looks like the recent upwards trend of the Linux market share has calmed down

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, the NetMarketShare website and the Steam Hardware Survey showed the Linux share was rising but it appears both have now calmed down.

Changing your country on Steam has been made harder to battle VPNs

By Liam Dawe,
Something that has been happening for years now, is that people have been switching around their country on Steam and using VPNs to get cheaper prices - Valve looks to have put a stop to it.

Vulnerability found in GRUB2 bootloader, nicknamed ‘BootHole’, compromising Secure Boot

By BTRE,
Users of the popular bootloader may want to update their systems in order to mitigate the danger of this new exploit.

Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft

By Liam Dawe,
It feels like FOSS is on a roll lately, with more and more great open source applications seeing funding from big names. Blender is back in the spotlight again, with backing from Microsoft.

Ron Gilbert, developer of Thimbleweed Park is switching to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Ron Gilbert is a name most in the game industry will know from the likes of Thimbleweed Park, and earlier works like The Cave while at Double Fine and they were even the producer on my all-time favourite RTS Total Annihilation. It appears Gilbert is attempting to switch to Linux.

Google's UI toolkit Flutter comes to the Linux desktop with help from Canonical

By Liam Dawe,
This might be quite big news! Flutter, the UI toolkit from Google that's used in tens of thousands of Android applications is coming to the desktop. Google and Canonical have announced their push for Linux too.

The Linux market share appears to continue rising with Ubuntu winning

By Liam Dawe,
Take it with your usual dose of salt and scepticism but when looking over the Linux market share, at least on NetMarketShare it appears to continue rising.

11 years ago this month GOL was created, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
11 years ago this month on July 5, the GamingOnLinux website was created and what an absolutely insane ride it's been. It's truly difficult to fully comprehend how far Linux and Linux Gaming has come in this time.

Linux Kernel patch sent in for comments to help gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora have sent in a fresh patch for discussion to the Linux Kernel list to help Linux gaming, acting as a follow-up to their previous attempt.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising

By Liam Dawe,
Looking at multiple places, it appears like the Linux desktop has been on something of a roll lately with the market share starting to trend upwards.

Linux Kernel patch being discussed to help Windows games run in Wine

By Liam Dawe,
A developer for Collabora, the open source consultancy firm that works with the likes of Valve has sent in a Linux Kernel patch aimed at helping Windows games run on Linux through Wine.

Heroic Labs becomes a Defold game engine sponsor

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, game developer King transferred the source code for the Defold game engine over to a new Defold Foundation where they opened up the source and now they have a new sponsor.
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