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The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive"

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2025

Open source rocks so it's pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They've now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client.

Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2025

It turns out that not only are Valve using the open source FEX for the Steam Frame but they have been funding FEX since the beginning of it.

Fedora Linux 44 will get improved NTSYNC enabling for Proton / Wine

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2025

NTSYNC has been available in the Linux kernel for a while, but it's taking distributions a while to actually use it - Fedora Linux 44 will make it easier.

Arch-based distro EndeavourOS gets a new Ganymede release

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2025

Easily one of the best ways to try out a form of Arch Linux, the popular EndeavourOS has a new release with Ganymede out now.

UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2025

What will now be the main modern feature centric port for all Doom engine games, UZDoom has a first proper release out to take over from GZDoom.

Wine 10.20 released with upgraded vkd3d

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2025

The Windows compatibility layer Wine version 10.20 was released over the weekend, here's all the highlights from it.

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2025

The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features.

Valve release small Proton Experimental update for ARC Raiders, Uno and Far Cry 4

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2025

Following on from a bigger Proton Experimental update for Linux / SteamOS last week, a smaller bug-fix update has rolled out for the Windows compatibility tool.

s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2025

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!

KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2025

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"

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2025

Another release is here for the incredible open source project Blender. The 5.0 release brings huge changes like completely overhauled colour management.