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Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

Phoronix - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 01:36
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...

GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental

Phoronix - Sat, 01/31/2026 - 19:37
Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...

Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab'ing

Phoronix - Sat, 01/31/2026 - 19:21
KDE Plasma developers remain quite busy preparing for the Plasma 6.6 desktop release coming up in a little more than two weeks while at the same time continuing to land early features for the Plasma 6.7 release coming later in the year...

The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired

Phoronix - Sat, 01/31/2026 - 19:09
For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...

GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API

Phoronix - Sat, 01/31/2026 - 18:55
GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings...

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