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Wine 10.15 released bringing Unicode 17 and some initial NTSYNC work

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 10.15 has rolled out as the latest development release on the Windows compatibility layer towards eventually the Wine 11 release next year.

Proton Experimental updated for Dune: Awakening, Tales Of Berseria, Arken Age and more

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental was updated for September 10th to bring more Windows game fixes to Linux Desktop, SteamOS and Steam Deck. Here's all the latest.

Classic open source RTS Warzone 2100 v4.6 brings better water effects, revamped options and more

By Liam Dawe,
Warzone 2100 continues living its best life as a free and open source project, with the classic RTS receiving another major upgrade with version 4.6 out now.

Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now officially open source

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun computing history for you here as Microsoft recently open sourced Microsoft 6502 BASIC under the MIT license.

KDE officially release the first alpha of KDE Linux their new reference implementation OS

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team have been busy, as they're making their own full Linux distro with KDE Linux being a reference implementation OS for Plasma and KDE apps.

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is officially out now

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" has been officially released today, bringing with it plenty of enhancements across the board to the popular Linux distro.

WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes, you really do just need to run a Windows app on Linux and perhaps WinBoat might make this easier with its promise of "seamless integration".

ScummVM gets support for the survival horror Penumbra Overture from the Amnesia developers

By Liam Dawe,
Penumbra Overture was the first survival horror game from Frictional Games released all the way back in 2007, and now ScummVM is getting support for it.

ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of ChimeraOS has announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS that aims to provide more of a classic gaming console like experience.

Wine 10.14 brings updates for vkd3d and Mono plus more fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The Windows compatibility layer Wine, which is what Valve's Proton is built from, has development version 10.14 out now.

DXVK 2.7.1 brings performance improvements for some Direct3D 9 games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to run Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton.

OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1 released with a new plugin manager

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is set to get even more advanced for all your recording and streaming needs on Linux, with the introduction of a new plugin manager.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for DOOM Eternal, Resident Evil Village, Red Dead Redemption 2 and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh update to Proton Experimental for August 28th, bringing plenty of improvements for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

The impressive app store Bazaar has arrived on Flathub

By Liam Dawe,
There's many ways to install apps on Linux and Bazaar might be one of the slickest, with a focus on Flatpak and Flathub.

The popular Linux distro CachyOS has a big upgrade and some fun stuff for gamers

By Liam Dawe,
CachyOS is a popular choice for Linux gamers based on Arch Linux (like SteamOS is too), and the August update brings some big new features.

Bazzite adds support for Ayaneo 3 and the AOKZOE A1X with work towards MSI Claw A8 and Legion Go 2

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite, the next generation of Linux gaming, has released a new build with lots of upgrades and support for more PC gaming handhelds.

GE-Proton 10-14 brings lots of fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 10-14 is now available for this community maintained compatibility layer for running even more Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Proton 10.0-2d (beta) released with a few small fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up a small version bump with Proton 10.0-2d (beta) now available which includes a few small fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing

By Liam Dawe,
The next release of KDE Plasma is due in October and the developers have been working non-stop on some great new features for the popular desktop.

Retro x86-based machine emulator 86Box v5.0 brings a new integrated machine manager

By Liam Dawe,
86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software, with a big new release out to make managing multiple systems easier.
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