Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games
Following yesterday's Wine 5.3 release, Wine-Staging 5.3 was issued as the latest testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 5.3 is still carrying 800+ extra patches compared to upstream Wine while it has updated its Event FD synchronization code and also added one important addition this cycle...
Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes
In 2020 we certainly didn't expect the Linux Gaming Publishing website to appear back online, years after their single server failed and ultimately faded away as one of the promising Linux game porters built up following the collapse of Loki Software...
Genode OS 20.02 Released With Continued Improvements To Sculpt OS
The Genode operating system framework is out with a new release along with its general purpose Sculpt OS operating system...
Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company
While the Qt5 tool-kit on Wayland is in fairly good shape in recent times, the Qt Wayland module that provides the Wayland platform abstraction and helpers for assembly Qt-based Wayland compositors could run the risk of regressing...
The $199 Pinebook Pro ARM Laptop Is Closer To Running On The Mainline Linux Kernel
For those that have managed to get their hands on the Pinebook Pro as the $199 ARM 64-bit laptop powered by a Rockchip RK3399 SoC and with 4GB of RAM, 1080p panel, 64GB eMMC, and other decent features for the price, mainline Linux kernel support could be in order possibly even for Linux 5.7...
Wine 5.3 Released With Various Improvements
Wine 5.3 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot on the road to Wine 6.0 next year...
Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files
Prolific open-source developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat who has been responsible for the creation of PackageKit, the ColorHug colorimeter hardware, GNOME Software, and for the past number of years focused on the Fwupd firmware updating utility and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has a new open-source project...
NVIDIA 440.64 Driver Released With MX330/MX350 Support, Linux 5.6 Compatibility
NVIDIA has issued another stable Linux driver release in their long-term 440 series...
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri
The Unity 8 desktop environment that continues to be developed by the UBports open-source community for use on UBports' Ubuntu Touch and ultimately back on the Linux desktop as well have renamed the project...
Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released With RAS For Vega 7nm, SLURM Support
A new version of the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" stack is available today but it still doesn't deliver on Navi support...