Valve Updates Steam Survey Data For April With A Slight Linux Increase
Valve has published their Steam Survey results for April, which is the first full month where the US and still much of the world has been in lockdown over the coronavirus, and thus interesting to see how it has impacted the gamer metrics...
Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha Released For This X11 Window Manager / Wayland Compositor
The first alpha release of the Enlightenment 0.24 window manager / Wayland compositor with new features and other improvements...
ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler
The "open-source Windows" ReactOS project has upgraded its build environment leading to much newer versions of key compiler toolchain components...
Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer Sees First Release In Two Years
Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer remains focused on debugging and analyzing OpenCL application performance across platforms. It hadn't seen a new release, however, in two years but that changed last month...
KDE Starts May With Dolphin Improvements, Various Bug Fixes
KDE developers remain as busy as ever during the global lockdown around the coronavirus...
Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs
Linux 5.8 will see support for next-generation Marvell/Aquantia network chipsets...
Open-Source OpenXR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality
Monado, the open-source OpenXR run-time implementation for Linux, has been advancing quite well since we last reported on it back in February with its inaugural v0.1 release...
The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape
The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...
Intel Sends Out Rocket Lake Linux Graphics Driver Patches - Confirms Gen12 Platform
A day after announcing the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series CPUs, the Intel open-source engineers have volleyed their first patches for bringing up the graphics on next-gen Rocket Lake...
Proton 5.0-7 Released With New Game Support, Updated VKD3D/DXVK
Following the Proton 5.0-7 release candidate from a few days ago, this critical part of Valve's Steam Play is now available for weekend gamers...