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s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source
s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET, and now it is open source!
Category: Open Source
KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely
It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.
Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"
After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.
TRX an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 version 1.0 released
With lots of enhancements for the classics Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2, the TRX project version 1.0 is out now with an LUA scripting engine for modders.
xorg-server 21.1.21 freshly released to fix some annoying regressions
For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland, there's a new release out that should hopefully fix up some issues you may have been seeing.
Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine
One of the great things about Valve's hardware is that it's not locked down, and they put a lot of money into open source for SteamOS (Linux).
WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more
WinBoat is a popular way to run Windows apps on Linux in a containerized environment that sorts all the configuration for you and a new update sounds great.
Proton Experimental for SteamOS / Linux gets fixes for Marvel Rivals, BlazBlue Centralfiction and more
A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve for the weekend with various game fixes for SteamOS / Linux.
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
The cross-platform Nexus Mods app v0.21.1 makes mod collection installation smoother
The Nexus Mods app team have rolled out another early release for their in-progress successor to Vortex, with v0.21.1 bringing more improvements.
A great showcase of open source - Blender 5.0 is out with completely overhauled colour management
Another release is here for the incredible open source project Blender. The 5.0 release brings huge changes like completely overhauled colour management.
Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release
OpenE2140 is bringing back Earth 2140, the classic RTS with it being powered by the OpenRA engine and a first release is out now.
Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements
Just as the weekend arrived, Mesa 25.3.0 was released as the latest new-feature upgrade for open source Linux graphics drivers.
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades
VKD3D-Proton is one of the secret ingredients for Proton to make so many Windows games work well on Linux / SteamOS with a new 3.0 release out now.
Wine 10.19 released as we head towards Wine 11
The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved.
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.12 has been released
A brand new version of the modernised Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine fheroes2 has released with version 1.1.12 now available.
Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine
Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck.
Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released
The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa 25.2.7 now available.
KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen
The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.
MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate
The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up.
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