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Following the feature freeze and code branching for Qt 5.14, the Qt "Dev" branch will likely be shifting immediately to Qt 6 development. A Qt 5.15 release is still expected to happen before Qt 6.0, but that 5.15 milestone will likely just be a polished release derived from Qt 5.14...

Going back a decade one of the interesting open-source FPS games of its time was Warsow. Development on Warsow has seemingly been tremulous over the past few years (edit: though the core developer has recently released a new beta) for this Qfusion (Quake 2 code base) engine powered game that started in 2005, but now there is Warfork as a fork of Warsow that is being developed and also available via Steam...

The KDE Usability and Productivity Initiative to solve various problems in the KDE software stack to make it easier to use to more individuals and to do so more efficient will be coming to an end. But other KDE goals are being envisioned and the usability and productivity elements will continue to be worked on outside of this initiative...

System76 Launches A Graphical Firmware Manager Compatible With LVFS, All Ubuntu And Debian Distros  Forbes

The company behind Pop!_OS has introduced its Firmware Manager Project, taking its existing modern GTK-based graphical approach and making it ...

Knoppix 8.6 is out this weekend as the newest version for this one of the original Linux distributions supporting Live CD/DVD booting...

Knoppix 8.6 Released - This Original Linux Live Distro Now Based On Debian Buster  Phoronix

Knoppix 8.6 is out this weekend as the newest version for this one of the original Linux distributions supporting Live CD/DVD booting. Knoppix 8.6 marks the ...

Vulkan 1.1.120 is out as the newest weekly update to the Vulkan graphics API...

Linux 5.3 Kernel Yielding The Best Performance Yet For AMD EPYC "Rome" CPU Performance  Phoronix

Among many different Linux/open-source benchmarks being worked on for the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors now that our initial launch benchmarks are out of ...

Among many different Linux/open-source benchmarks being worked on for the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors now that our initial launch benchmarks are out of the way are Linux distribution comparisons, checking out the BSD compatibility, and more. Some tests I wrapped up this weekend were seeing how recent Linux kernel releases perform on the AMD EPYC 7742 64-core / 128-thread processors...

RaspArch Project Now Lets You Run Arch Linux on Your Raspberry Pi 4 Computer  Softpedia News

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs Softpedia News about the availability of a new version of his RaspArch project, which lets users run the Arch Linux ...

How to access EXT file systems of Linux on a Windows 10/8/7 computer  H2S Media

If you are a geek, you might already know there are different file systems available to store files and you should choose the one for you depending upon the ...

Dual boot Windows 10 and Linux issues: Here's a quick fix  Windows Report

In order to fix the Windows 10 and Linux dual boot issue, you will need to open PowerShell and run a couple of commands in it.

Survival game Rust is axing Linux version, offers refunds to its players  Neowin

The studio behind the popular survival game Rust, Facepunch Studios, has announced that it is removing the title's Linux client altogether. Anyone who's played ...

While most major hardware vendors have been adopting LVFS+Fwupd for firmware updating on Linux, Linux PC vendor System76 has notably been absent from the party for a variety of reasons. Today they announced their new Firmware Manager project that bridges the gap between their lack of LVFS support and their own hosted firmware service...

Rust will offer refunds as they stop shipping Linux client  Rock Paper Shotgun

Multiplayer survival game Rust will soon stop shipping its Linux client and offer refunds to those who have played using it. They've penned a blog post ...

Git 2.23 was released on Friday with more than 500 changes on top of the previous release...

Re-based against yesterday's Wine 4.14 release, Wine-Staging 4.14 is now available with nearly 850 extra patches...

Skype Insider update brings back Split View mode on Windows, Mac, and Linux  OnMSFT

A recent update to the Skype Insider app for Windows, Mac, and Linux has brought back the Split View Mode that used to be available in the now deprecated ...

10 Best Terminal emulators for Linux that are worth giving a try  H2S Media

Terminal emulator on a Linux system does not need any introduction. It is one of the most important tools in a Linux system, all users know about. The Terminal ...

Back in May we wrote about Oracle's initial plans for introducing an eBPF back-end to GCC 10 to allow this GNU compiler to target this general purpose in-kernel virtual machine. Up to this point LLVM Clang has been the focused compiler for eBPF but those days are numbered with Oracle on Friday pushing out the newest GCC patches...