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Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux
Firaxis Games and 2K are releasing Sid Meier's Civilization VII on February 11, 2025 and now we know what power you're going to need to run it on Linux Desktop systems. It will have a supported Native Linux version, as covered here on GamingOnLinux previously.
Bah Hum-bugfix – it’s the Christmas Update to Calibre!
In deep mid-winter nothing beats curling up with a good book, in-front of a roaring fire – the crackle of all the unwanted Christmas tat your nearest and dearest bought you chars, melts, and burns providing a warm aural soundtrack.
Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
A better Thunderbird? Let's take a look! Handling emails is an important task if your business or work depends on it. No matter how many messaging apps take over official/unofficial communication channels, emails will always be a thing.
Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code.
2024 Was Raspberry Pi's Biggest Year to Date
Raspberry Pi is about to wrap up its biggest, busiest year to date. The company launched a ton of new products, overhauled the Pi OS operating system, and went public on the London Stock Exchange. It's an exciting time to be a Pi fan.
DXVK 2.5.2 Improves Support for Alpha Protocol, Borderlands 2, and Other Games
DXVK 2.5.2 is out today as the second maintenance update to the DXVK 2.5 series for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine.
Darktable 5.0.0 Released! Camera-specific Styles & UI Improvements
Darktable 5.0.0 is a new major feature release. It now shows a splash screen at startup, including app loading process bar, which is useful for the user who has a large library. For choice, it can be disabled in the Preferences dialog, under miscellaneous tab.
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Landed in Void Linux
Void Linux users can now upgrade to the new, sleek, lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment just days after its release.
T2 Linux takes weird architectures seriously, including my beloved PA-RISC
With more and more Linux distributions – as well as the kernel itself – dropping support for more exotic, often dead architectures, it’s a blessing T2 Linux exists.
OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool
The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...
How to see your IP address in Ubuntu
An IP address is like your physical mailing address. Once you connect a Linux distribution like Ubuntu to the Internet or a router, your system gets assigned two IP addresses. There's the private one, which is used to identify your device on an internal network, and the public IP address, which is what websites see when you connect.
freeDictionaryApp: Open Source Android App That Helps You Get Information on a Word
Every so often, while reading a book, I come across unfamiliar words that I need to look up online to understand. Occasionally, I even forget the meanings of words I once knew.
Valve will join Lenovo at CES 2025 for the future of gaming handhelds
It seems the stage has been set for more SteamOS Linux devices to join the Steam Deck, as Valve will be partnering up with Lenovo at CES 2025.
6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Tools for System Resources Monitoring in Linux
The tools featured in this roundup are targeted at a desktop user who wants to monitor resources being used on their machine.
Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review
The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...
CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures
Today, the development team behind the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released a new ISO snapshot for December 2024 with various improvements, updated components, a new default kernel, and other changes.
These 7 Linux myths you still believe simply aren't true
Linux is everywhere. It's on the majority of servers, powers the Steam Deck handheld gaming device, and is slowly creeping up the desktop OS charts (and no, 2025 won't be the year of Linux). It's a fantastic operating system that isn't an OS.
Darktable 5.0 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Darktable 5.0 open-source raw image editor has been released today as a major update introducing new features, improvements, and enhanced camera support.
CachyOS December 2024 Release: Optimized Kernel, RustiCL, and Wireless Enhancements
Arch-based CachyOS's December '24 update brings optimized kernels with AutoFDO, RustiCL for Mesa, wireless-regdb by default, Bluetooth support, and key fixes.
WeAct RP2350A_V20 is a cheap Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with up to 16MB flash
WeAct RP2350A_V20 may be the world’s cheapest Raspberry Pi RP2350 board around with a design similar to the official Raspberry Pi Pico 2, but featuring a black PCB, a Reset button, a USB-C port and offered with either 4MB or 16MB flash.