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NVIDIA releases the 465.19.01 Beta driver for Linux, looks like more Wayland work coming

By Liam Dawe,
22
Get ready to do some more testing NVIDIA users, as a fresh Beta just went up for their mainline Linux drivers with 465.19.01 now available. Plus, news for pass-through on virtual machines.

Windows compatibility tool Wine 6.5 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
1
Not an emulator but a compatibility tool that translates Windows calls into language Linux can understand, Wine 6.5 is officially out now as the latest development release.

What have you been playing recently, come tell your thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
65
It's the weekend and it has again been a while since we had a community talking point article, so here we are!

Collabora announce PanVk, an open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost

By Liam Dawe,
6
Open source consulting firm Collabora are certainly busy. While they work with Steam owner Valve on various things, they also work in other areas of Linux like driver development - their latest being PanVk.

New OBS Plugin Offers Game Capture Solution on Wayland (for Vulkan renderers)

By Kithop,
13
One of the issues cropping up in the migration from Xorg to Wayland is the desire to capture part or all of your screen for recording and/or streaming to others. There's a new plugin coming for OBS Studio to help with this.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
0
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

GNOME 40 is out now with the redesigned Activities Overview

By Liam Dawe,
38
GNOME 40 is out now to showcase the latest Linux desktop environment work from the GNOME Project, which includes a number of feature overhauls and improvements.

Manjaro 21.0 'Ornara' is out now with Xfce, KDE and GNOME upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
1
Prefer Manjaro as your favourite Linux distribution or want to try it out? Now looks to be a good time, with the Manjaro 21.0 'Ornara' release now available.

Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation amid calls for FSF resignations

By Liam Dawe,
30
Back in 2019, Richard Stallman (RMS) resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT but it appears Stallman has returned and many are not happy about this. ARTICLE UPDATED 25/03/21.

Microsoft reportedly have Discord in their sights to acquire

By Liam Dawe,
63
Do you use Discord? Well if these reports are to be trusted, it looks like they might get a new owner under Microsoft.

Get a free Stadia Premiere Edition with Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 7 free on Pro

By Liam Dawe,
6
A bunch more Stadia news to cover this morning as we round up some recent news and announcements for Google's fledgling cloud gaming platform. First up is a big one with the Resident Evil series headed to Stadia.

The open source Epic Games client for Linux, Heroic Games Launcher can now run offline

By Liam Dawe,
14
The open source Heroic Games Launcher is a game launcher that currently works with the Epic Games Store, providing Linux users with an easy way to manage it and play games.

Arrow is a new open source app for developing text adventures and game narratives

By Liam Dawe,
6
Are you designing a game narrative or want to make some sort of text adventure? Even if it's just prototyping or storyboarding the free and open source app Arrow can help.

Linux driver releases - NVIDIA 460.67 and Radeon Software for Linux 20.50 out now

By Liam Dawe,
1
Two new drivers went out this week with both NVIDIA and AMD getting in on the update action so let's take a look.

V3DV Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 keeps on improving

By Liam Dawe,
1
Soon, the Raspberry Pi 4 will become even better with the constant improvements being made to the V3DV Vulkan driver.

11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors have launched

By Liam Dawe,
6
In the market for a new CPU and sticking with Intel? The 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors code-named "Rocket Lake-S" have now launched.

Linux vendor System76 releases the Pangolin, a full AMD laptop

By Liam Dawe,
22
Ready for an all-AMD solution to your hardware problems? Not long after announcing their new Thelio Mira desktop, System76 believe they hold the AMD answer with the new Pangolin.

FunKey S is a tiny Linux-powered retro-gaming handheld

By Liam Dawe,
18
Do you love retro gaming and emulation? How about pocket sized devices, powered by Linux that you can take anywhere? The FunKey S looks like a really sweet bit of kit.

Windows 'not an emulator' compatibility tool Wine 6.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
23
Not an emulator but a compatibility tool that translates Windows calls into language Linux can understand, Wine 6.4 is officially out now as the latest development release.

Sofa gaming Linux distro GamerOS version 23 is out continuing to fill the gap of SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
15
Filling in the gap left by Valve leaving SteamOS alone, the sofa / couch gaming distribution GamerOS has a brand new release available with the usual great improvements.
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