Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…
#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by botsThomas Claburn (The Register)
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffslxer.com
: Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier optionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freezelxer.com
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and GIMP preinstalled in live media.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
เวลาพูดถึงอุบัติเหตุโรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์ เรามักนึกถึงเชอร์โนบิลกับฟุกุชิมะ แต่มีอีกแห่งที่เคยเกิดตั้งแต่ปี 1979 (2522) คือ Three Mile Island ที่รัฐเพนซิลเวเนีย USA:
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เหตุเกิดกับ Unit-2 ซึ่งต้องปิดตัวหลังเกิดเหตุ แต่ Unit-1 ยังเปิดทำงานต่อไป จนปิดตัวลงในปี 2019 (2562) และมีกำหนดจะเปิดทำงานอีกครั้งในปี 2027 (2570) นี้ เพื่อจ่ายพลังงานให้ data center ของ Microsoft:
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Following below is the step by step review of recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqe5Hs00Go&t=686s posted by Stephan Raabe . No...lxer.com
KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.
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#kde #linux #opensource
"dracut is a powerful tool used in Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions to create and manage initramfs images—the initial RAM filesystem used during system boot. Unlike older tools like mkinitrd, dracut uses a modular approach, allowing you to build minimal or specialized initramfs tailored to your system."
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Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)
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#AlmaLinuxDayVancouver is happening Aug 9th!
Artists, pipeline devs, and system engineers who make up the backbone of VFX, this day is for you! 🐧
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-V…
VirtualBox 7.1.12 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT…
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driverwww.phoronix.com
: Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open sourceLindsay Clark (The Register)
Just thinking how much annually careless car drivers take from us....
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#WarOnCars #FaujaSingh #Marathons
Singh’s east London running club confirms death in India of athlete thought to be first centenarian to run a marathonJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
Bangkok Scientifique - Rethinking Education: Why Aren't Schools Preparing Kids for the Future
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Across the globe, people are starting to question whether the classroom is keeping pace with the world outside. While technology transforms how we live and work, students oMeetup
The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…
#skate #AntiCheat #EA #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck
skate. is an upcoming next-generation skateboarding game and it's now confirmed it will not support Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enable…
: Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fillThomas Claburn (The Register)
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software o…lxer.com
Popular free online shooter STRAFTAT just got a big content expansion with 4 player support gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/popu…
STRAFTAT is a free to play arena shooter that's quite popular, and it just had a big content expansion with support for 4 players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/dung…
#NeverwinterNights2 #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is now here from Aspyr Media, updating the classic from 2006.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Later on, he went on to create the Brave browser, an alternative to Firefox that blocks Internet ads and aims to protect users' privacy.FOSS Post Team (FOSS Post)
Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...
phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.5-…
Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...
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One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom 'BNGE' open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsetswww.phoronix.com
Learn how to code and develop for the ultra-customizable, open-source operating system, Linux! Pay what you want and help support Alzheimer's Research UK.Humble Bundle
Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/wuth…
#WutheringWaves #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Gaming
After Wuthering Waves launched on Steam, it was left broken on all Linux platforms including SteamOS and Steam Deck but now it works.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
phoronix.com/news/LLVM-22-Star…
GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-g…
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's 'gconfig' graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3www.phoronix.com
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/shar…
#SharkDentist #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming
I don't know who that it was a good idea to be a Shark Dentist, in what looks like a set from a cheap horror movie - but now I have to try it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…
#TheAlters #AI #Steam #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming
The Alters from 11 bit studios appears to be doing very well, apart from the controversy over the AI generated bits. A new patch is out to fix it up.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
More months added to our Linux distribution chart on our Steam Tracker: gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke…
RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rimw…
#RimWorld #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming
RimWorld has expanded in a massive way with the Odyssey expansion and the 1.6 update, now available for all players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vu…
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •leberschnitzel
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Valve making their own payment processing incoming ^^
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I don't like this. Now is incest games " because everyone is against that" and then they'll start attacking LGBTQ+ games just because they can.
Fuck'em, as someone has said, they should start their own payment process
Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Nazo • • •@nazokiyoubinbou This happens literally *anywhere*. If the store takes money, they have to follow the processor rules. This is not a Valve issue, it's a payment processor issue.
Marking this down specifically against Valve is not the way to go.
Nazo
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou Friendly reminder that corporate America can, will, and have gone scorched earth when there’s something they value higher than profits.
For example Walmart shutting down whole stores simply to stop unionization (and their evil propaganda they run for their poor employees).
Can’t do business without banking:(
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •It has long been curious to me how sex (or even involved romantic relationships) are beyond the pale in video games but ultraviolence is the accepted central premise of the game.
Imagine an Assassin’s Creed where the several thousand body count referred to the number of satisfied sexual partners rather than decapitated guards.