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Wine 10.11 brings work towards NTSYNC support

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 10.11 development release is out now for this Windows compatibility layer to run apps and games on Linux systems.

KDE devs disable potentially seizure inducing Plasma effect as accessibility work continues

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE developers are working towards making the Plasma desktop environment more accessible, with an essential tweak to the defaults.

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

By Liam Dawe,
More to think on for the Fedora Linux change proposal to drop 32-bit support - as the popular Bazzite would have to shut down.

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages.

KDE Plasma will continue having an X11 session, as Kubuntu switches to Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe,
KDE developers confirm Plasma will continue having a maintained X11 session, and now we know Kubuntu will be Wayland by default.

Proton 10.0-2 gets a Release Candidate for gaming on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are preparing the next major version of their Windows compatibility layer Proton, with a new test build ready for you with Proton 10.0-2.

Godot 4.5 beta 1 brings Wayland improvements, shader baking, rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing.

Mesa 25.1.4 brings more graphics driver fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 25.1.4 is out now for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing more bug fixes for the current stable series.

ScummVM announces support for the classic adventure The Last Express

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM only just recently announced support for Another World (Out of This World) and now they're back with the classic adventure The Last Express.

Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Developer Olivier Fourdan announced multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland, with new versions being released.

KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

By Liam Dawe,
KDE Plasma 6.4 has arrived bringing lots of modern enhancements to my favourite Linux desktop environment, and what's used on SteamOS / Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

ScummVM announces support for Another World (Out of This World)

By Liam Dawe,
The ScummVM team have announced that Another World (also known as Out of This World) is now supported by the open source project.

Heroes of Might and Magic II open source game engine fheroes2 version 1.1.9 released

By fheroes2,
Another fresh release of the Heroes of Might and Magic II open source game engine fheroes2.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Warframe, Enshrouded, Crysis 2 Remastered, OpenVR and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve updated Proton Experimental for June 13th bringing more game fixes to Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck to get Windows games running nicely.

Wine 10.10 brings more Media Foundation work, Mono and Unicode updates

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 10.10 is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer, which is a big part of Valve's Proton.

Manjaro KDE Plasma plans move to Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe,
Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution planning a big change, as Manjaro KDE Plasma also now plans to move to Wayland.

Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg

By Liam Dawe,
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.

Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.6.2 released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer has been released, with version 2.6.2 bringing assorted improvements.

Theme Hospital engine remake CorsixTH 0.69 Beta 1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Theme Hospital open source game engine CorsixTH has a nice Beta release out with v0.69 now in testing for this classic.

Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source

By Liam Dawe,
The upcoming MMO BitCraft Online is doing something very unusual for the genre, it's going to be open source.
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