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Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today
5 Jul 2023 at 1:23 pm UTC Likes: 3

Fourteen years already. Time flies indeed. Congratulations!

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
10 Mar 2023 at 9:38 am UTC

Quoting: Julius
Quoting: tfkTake KDE plasma for instance. The KDE team built it on top of Telerik's Qt. That one is open source as long as your application is free of charge. When you want to go commercial then you have to pay for a license. Not exactly OSS but it works for the KDE team.
This is outdated by around two decades. What rock have you been living under? qt is fully FOSS. It just *also* has a commercial edition.

And sure some Unity projects might be able to recycle this script code, but that doesn't make the game itself open-source. The engine is by far the largest part of the game and it is not even shared-source like the Unreal engine.
"qt is fully FOSS. It just *also* has a commercial edition."

Hahaha 😆 yeah sure Juli. Go read some licenses first before you come up with non-arguments.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
9 Mar 2023 at 2:04 pm UTC

What can others do with it? There is a huge community around Unity. All those developers can take code and inspiration from this project. They can contribute too.

The engine used allows for open source projects and I believe there is a free version too.

So while Unity may not be open source, this project is.

From an OSS viewpoint, I'm more interested in what Godot is doing. But that is because I'm enthusiastic about OSS. And that is a very different topic altogether.

Take KDE plasma for instance. The KDE team built it on top of Telerik's Qt. That one is open source as long as your application is free of charge. When you want to go commercial then you have to pay for a license. Not exactly OSS but it works for the KDE team.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins
26 Feb 2023 at 12:14 pm UTC

Seems the X-Plane team is as dedicated to OSS as they are about aviation. :happy:

KDE Plasma 5.27 released with multi-monitor & Wayland upgrades, Steam Deck updater
15 Feb 2023 at 8:21 am UTC

Very many thanks to the KDE developers for making a kick a** DE. 👏

10 years ago Steam released for Linux
15 Feb 2023 at 8:17 am UTC Likes: 6

I loved tinkering with WINE back I the days. Took weeks to get something working. Writing how to posts on AppHQ. Steam made things a bit boring. :tongue:

Zoom Platform, a store aimed at 'Generation X' adds more Linux support
3 Feb 2023 at 8:06 am UTC

Quoting: damarrinThe logo is VERY unfortunate. As is the name, really. Both for different reasons.

Otherwise, cool.

Edit: I realise they probably were around before the stupid war, so why should change their logo. Still... it was the first thing that came to mind.
I'm not willing to hand over my alphabet to a lunatic. In my book Z stands for fun, joy, enthusiasm, sharing, caring.

X-Plane 12 flight sim is officially out now
23 Dec 2022 at 1:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: JRayLambThe game looked great, right up to the point where I saw "Requires proprietary graphics drivers"

What the ... the kernel AMD drivers are better than the proprietary drivers, so why do I need those? Nvidia, yeah, you'll need them as nouveau isn't nouveau nor performant really.

I've got a couple of other games on my wishlist and maybe once I get to it, I'll pick this one up *if* I don't need the amdgpu-pro drivers for it.
You don't need the pro drivers. The sim works perfectly fine with the regular AMD kernel driver.

For NVIDIA the proprietary are needed.