Valve promoted today the Proton 7.0-6 release of its open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components to the stable channel for everyone who wants to play Windows games on Linux. Proton 7.0-6 is here with support for new games, including the critically acclaimed UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection, as well … Read more
OBS Studio 29.0.1 open-source and free software for live streaming and screen recording is now available for download as a “hotfix” release that addresses several issues discovered in OBS Studio 29.0. There are several Linux-specific fixes in OBS Studio 29.0.1, including a crash when using Wayland and trying to use the automatic scene switcher, an … Read more
Slax creator Tomas Matejicek announced today the general availability of two new versions of its minimalist distribution that promises a brand-new file system for persistent storage with the latest DynFileFS release. Slax 15.0.1 and Slax 11.6.0 are now available based on Slackware-current and Debian GNU/Linux 11.6 “Bullseye” respectively. The biggest change in these releases is … Read more
The Document Foundation released today the LibreOffice 7.5 open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, to offer users new features and numerous improvements. After almost six months of development, the LibreOffice 7.5 office suite is here to introduce major improvements to dark mode support, new application and … Read more
The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 22.12.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 22.12 open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other projects bringing various minor improvements to some of your favorite KDE apps. KDE Gear 22.12.2 is here almost a month after the first point release, … Read more
The January 2023 issue of my exclusive “Xfce’s Apps Update” monthly roundup is here to inform fans of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment about the latest releases of their favorite Xfce apps, plugins, tools, and more. January 2023 was quite busy for the Xfce developers as they kicked off the development cycle of the next … Read more
Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update for Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms to add various new features and fix many bugs, crashes, and issues. The biggest change in the new Steam Client update is the enablement of the new Big Picture mode, the one that resembles Steam Deck‘s UI, by default. So, … Read more
Great news for users of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment as the next major release, Xfce 4.20, which is currently in early development, will finally bring the long-anticipated and highly requested Wayland support. That’s right, work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce … Read more
Linux hardware vendor System76 shared today more details on the work they are doing for the upcoming Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution. In early December 2022, System76 teased us with some of the great new features like HDR support or a smoother NVIDIA experience that will probably be implemented in … Read more
elementary OS Founder and CEO Danielle Foré announced today the general availability for download of the long-anticipated elementary OS 7 “Horus” distribution based on the latest Ubuntu LTS and packed with many new features and improvements. Built on top of the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series, elementary OS 7 is here to … Read more