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Happy Debian Day - going 30 years strong
16 August 2023 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 3

Still my fav distro to date. I remember trying Debian 7 many years ago when I was distro hopping and wondering how to get mp3 files to play.

Check out this modern rewrite of the classic racer wipEout
15 August 2023 at 9:19 am UTC

I played the dos original for days on end, still have the disc somewhere.

Hopefully Sony won't interfere with this one.

NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa
7 August 2023 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Grogan(That always used to hold me back and get me in way over my head when upgrading kernels, when the Nvidia glue won't compile and you have to wait for them to fix it for the new kernel..

As someone who compiles his own kernels, this used to be a nightmare on Nvidia. Usually hit or miss, going through forums for a solution and all that.

It's nice to see open source Nvidia support becoming a reality, but my bets are on Intel these days, their open source support is gradually becoming a viable alternative to AMD.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine gets upgraded
12 July 2023 at 7:25 pm UTC

If anyone wants a compiled binary of the engine I've made one available from my google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14aHumVwEtLo6f5JF8IMN5o_xBGC88_ii

Dependencies may vary from distro to distro, in case it doesn't run just run the 'depcheck.sh' file in terminal and will print out any missing libraries.

Multi-vendor RGB controller app OpenRGB v0.9 is out now
10 July 2023 at 8:49 pm UTC

Still hoping one day I'll be able to control the rgb on my Asrock 6800 phantom gaming gpu. It's been looking like a circus for over 2 years now.

Get a free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition with Prime Gaming
18 June 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: hardpenguinI played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅

Might be the nostalgic in me, but for me this game has a certain charm and keeps me going back to it from time to time.

Diablo 4 on Steam Deck is quite magnificent (and desktop Linux too!)
5 June 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC Likes: 6

Also in recent Diablo news - DevilutionX for Diablo 1 is almost about ready to get a new release - https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/milestone/8

Wine 8.9 released with more PE work, Mono 8.0 and more Wayland updates
29 May 2023 at 8:21 pm UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjrThis wine have more work related winegstreamer, mfplat, qcap but until test i have until now dont see any changes but if appear something put here


Unity engine games (Elderborn and Greak) no changes, still same issue.

European Commission approves Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
15 May 2023 at 8:59 pm UTC Likes: 18

Microsoft will do whatever it takes to get the approvals, and once it gets them they'll be free to workaround the rules how they see fit.

They also said "MS Loves Linux", except that every single article about their contributions to open source only serves their benefits not the Linux userbase as a whole.

The EU is happily feeding the monster with a golden spoon.

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking
9 May 2023 at 6:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: sarmad"fragmented platform"

What a silly execute

Logged in just to say the same thing but you beat me to it.

This excuse is old and very inaccurate. I've plenty of native Linux games which run perfectly fine on a number of distros, and if the Roblox devs want to make it easy on themselves they could just target a slightly older Ubuntu distro.