Two new chip vulnerabilities, AMD Inception and Intel Downfall, forced Torvalds to push out Linux security fixes.

id Software and Nightdive Studios are at it again with an enhanced version of Quake II, available now for all platforms and the best part is that, if you already own Quake II on Steam, it's a free update.

Web page translations are available in the latest beta builds of Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome's built-in translation capabilities are something I find

A small update for Proton Experimental launched on August 10th for Steam Deck and desktop Linux to fix issues with two problematic games.

Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines. Thanks to this code merged into the Virglrenderer and this now-merged Mesa code, there is support for AV1 video decoding that can be…

When Pine64 launched its RISC-V tablet earlier this year they were clear from the start: software support, particularly usable desktop Linux distros,

Bigger, bolder, and brimming with ports for hobbyists and devs alike

Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections.

An open-source alternative to Mozilla's Pocket with exciting features.

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan 'RADV' driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review.

Want to play an improved version of famed futuristic racing game wipEout on Ubuntu? Chances are you do as this game is considered something of a classic.

Debian Bookworm and Bullseye users are now patched against the recent "Downfall" and "INCEPTION" hardware flaws affecting Intel and AMD CPUs.

Some sad news to share this Monday morning. A name I imagine a lot of newer readers won't actually know, Dustin “Crusader” Reyes sadly passed away - someone who was a pioneer of Linux gaming news.

Blackberry Pi is a pocket-sized device that runs a full Linux-based OS

Time for some fresh GRUB

Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark.

The Debian Project and Debian GNU/Linux distribution turn 30 years of existence since the late Ian Murdock first announced them back in 1993.

A new version to the free (but not open-source) WPS Office is available for Linux. It's been an age since I last mentioned WPS Office on this blog. The

Software Freedom Conservancy has called on developers to ditch Zoom over recent changes it made to its terms and conditions.

OBS Studio 30.0 is now available for public beta testing with Intel QSV support on Linux, WHIP/WebRTC output, and more.

Raspberry Pi's $4 Pico microcontrollers might not pack the same punch as their big brothers—but you can still do a lot with them.