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The Linux market share appears to continue rising with Ubuntu winning
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.
Category: Misc
11 years ago this month GOL was created, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
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
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
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
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
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.
GNOME seeking feedback on defining GNOME software
This is your chance to get involved in open source in a community way, that doesn't require any coding as the GNOME team are looking to gather feedback.
What Never Was: Chapter II gets a boost from an Epic MegaGrant
What Never Was, a short story-driven adventure game from Acke Hallgren has been given a funding boost for What Never Was: Chapter II.
XPRIZE Connect is trying to get kids coding with a competition
The non-profit XPRIZE Foundation has announced XPRIZE Connect, a new "learning initiative" with the first being Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge to get kids coding.
GNOME and Rothschild Patent Imaging settle
Back in October 2019, the GNOME project announced they had been hit by what they called a patent troll with Rothschild Patent Imaging. Now it seems it has been resolved and it's a big win for open source.
G2A has paid Wube Software over illegitimate Factorio keys
Last year, the website G2A once again went into the spotlight due to their market place allowing anyone to sell game keys and often they're from dubious sources. Now G2A has given an update.
Lair of the Clockwork God becomes the number 1 Steam 250 hidden gem
Lair of the Clockwork God, a game the blends together a platformer with a point & click adventure just recently became notably highly rated.
Microsoft Build - DirectX and Linux (WSL) plus more
During the Microsoft Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft has raised a number of eyebrows at their Linux plans.
11 years later Minecraft sells over 200 million copies
It's hard to believe that Minecraft, a blocky survival game originally created over a weekend has gone onto sell over 200 million copies.
Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately
Another week down, plenty of new games have released or been updated and we're about to begin another cycle. Let's have a chat.
Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source
During a recent online event the current Microsoft President, Brad Smith, opened up a little bit about open source and their previous failures with it.
Move over Stream Deck, give me some Stream Pi
The Stream Deck from Elgato is a nifty little bit of hardware, helping out anyone who does video content have access to a ton of commands at the touch of a button and now it has some more open competition with the Stream Pi.
Egosoft, developer of X4: Foundations talks up moving to Blender and appreciating open source
During a recent livestream, the Egosoft team whose most recently title is X4: Foundations, talked a lot about their plans for the game and they had some fun bits to share on using the open source app Blender.
According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.
What are you clicking on this weekend? Come have a chat in the comments
Another week down, most of us are still in lockdown with the Coronavirus and there's plenty of time to play games.
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