While most modern desktop Linux distributions have migrated over to PipeWire for the roles once handled by PulseAudio (and JACK, among others), for those still relying on the PulseAudio sound server the PulseAudio 17.0 release was made available today.

There seems to be two classes of people when reminiscing over Adobe Flash: those that were fond of Flash-games of the time from many years ago and those that cringe over recalling Flash ads and other content requiring that prior proprietary Macromedia/Adobe…

Linux Mint 21.3 is now available to download — the first version to offer Wayland support in the Cinnamon desktop. Following a successful bout of

Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run.

While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week.

GNOME 45.3 update is now rolling out for users of the latest GNOME 45 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements.

Well this quite a surprise. THE FINALS is one of the most popular new online FPS games that uses Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Online Services, and as of a recent update — it works on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Pi 5's speed makes it a useful and usable general-purpose desktop, with limits.

A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language

Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs

The winner of the KDE Plasma 6.0 wallpaper competition has been announced. In August of last year KDE devs launched a community-based contest to select a

openSUSE Leap 16 confirmed as the successor to the openSUSE Leap 15 operating system series based on SUSE’s new Adaptable Linux Platform.

Wine 9.0 free and open-source compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps on Unix-like operating systems is now available.

Wondering how to use tiling windows on GNOME? Try the tiling assistant. Here's how it works.

The Raspberry Pi Compute 5 could be coming sooner than you think

Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default

GamesIndustry.biz recently spoke to Ubisoft, and something said during the interview seems to have created some sparks across the industry about game ownership.

For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel.

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Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches

Last week Linux creator Linus Torvalds spotted a bad performance regression with the early Linux 6.8 kernel state that was leading to his kernel build times doubling