Wine 9.4 debuts with vkd3d 1.11, Wayland driver OpenGL, elevated privileges, HID enhancements, and bug fixes. Here’s more on that!
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Collabora shares a brief review and a look ahead to the ongoing work on the Wayland driver for Wine, as well as a look at some of the features that would be great to have eventually.
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Collabora shares a brief review and a look ahead to the ongoing work on the Wayland driver for Wine, as well as a look at some of the features that would be great to have eventually.
The post Wayland Driver for Wine to Get OpenGL Support and Many New F…
This tutorial will help you install all requirements for C++/OpenGL programming and immediately start learning by reading opengl-tutorial.org. You will be able to build all the source codes both ways manually using commands as well as using Qt Creator….
Imagination Technologies announced very exciting news: The company is now using Zink for full OpenGL 4.6 support.The solution is the first product to be officially conformant using Zink.
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The Wayland driver for Wine is now better than ever! Here’s a look at what’s been accomplished in 2022.
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Asahi Linux devs announced the first public Apple Silicon GPU driver release, bringing OpenGL support to all Apple M-series systems.
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This list will help you recognize, get and play FOSS games on Ubuntu. By FOSS we mean no Valve Steam, only Free/Libre Open Source Software ones. Among them are widely known such as Freedoom and Super Tux Kart, and some of them also need more introduction such as Speed Dreams and Tux Math. Most of them can be added to Ubuntu via Software. We include both categories of educational and recreational ones here. This compilation is hoped to be helpful for teachers in teaching computing with FOSS including the games. Happy reading!
Description: proudly, the racing game icon of our free software community. It is a multiplayer 3D kart racing with free software mascots, like Gnu and Tux, as the riders. You can play it single- or two-player with your kids.
Similarity: Crash Team Racing
Genre: 3D racing
Multiplayer: yes
Availability: deb, snap
License: free software, free data
Super Tux
Name: SuperTux 2
Description: SuperTux (not to be confused with SuperTuxKart) is a penguin adventure game! Jump over monsters, earn coins, and get food to win the games. Play this amusing game with your kids.
Description: pronounced zero-ay-dee, 0 A.D. is the empires game of free software community. Build a country and attack other countries or defeat their economy to win. Feel one of the best graphics of FOSS on Ubuntu.
Description: the world first FPS game, Doom, has been successfully re-produced by our community. PrBoom/FreeDoom is a version of Doom II that is fully free game both in software and in data.
Description: Dhewm3 is a free software version of the world-rocking FPS of its own age (was competing with Half Life 2 at that time) Doom III. Unfortunately, it requires you to have the original Doom CD/DVD in order to use the proprietary data and we don’t know of any way it can play with a free data. In other words, it has not yet reached the stage Doom II already reached.
Description: OpenRA is a free software version of three games of Command Conquer real time strategy (RTS), namely Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn and Dune 2000.
Similarity: Command Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Dune 2000
Description: OpenTTD is a free software version of popular city (transportation) building Transport Tycoon Deluxe. You are a mayor and you should build your city transportation as good as possible.
Description: created with the same engine software as OpenRA, OpenSA is an RTS game of war between insects like ants, spiders etc. using bazooka and other guns in a swarm. It’s name is a pointer that it is a free software version of an old, abandoned proprietary game called Swarm Assault.
Description: this is a colorful same game from GNOME. You can play this to get rid some free time, or play colors with kids. It’s officially available on Ubuntu.
Description: TuxMath (tuxmath) is an educational game for kids learning their math. It can be played either alone or together, for kids from age of Elementary Student to even High School ones. Questions will fall from the above slowly and the kid should answer it, for example, 1 + 1 = ?, until all of them finished. The more your kids play it, the more they will be better in math.
Description: TuxTyping (tuxtype) is an education game for all ages suitable for children and adults. It is capable to train players about vocabularies, in English and other language, as well as typing quickly with keyboard. The questions can be edited by teacher to custom them according to each school curriculum, for example.
Description: TuxPaint is an award-winning drawing program for kids. From our perspective, it also is suitable as well as game for kids. It allows parents to guide their children play with computer just safe and fun. Draw something and you will hear cute sound every time you click. Want to draw cars? There are plenty of them available you just click to place it on your picture. It’s officially available on Ubuntu.
Similarity: –
Genre: education
Multiplayer: no
Availability: deb
License: free software, free data
Website:
Red Eclipse
Name: Red Eclipse
Description: not to be confused with Eclipse software for Java programming, Red Eclipse is a sophisticated-graphics fast-paced First Person Shooter (FPS) 3D game. It is created with Tesseract, a heavy modification of the legendary Cube 2: Sauerbraten game engine software.
Description: a futuristic, excellent-graphics fast-playing 3D FPS game. It is derived from another game called Nexuiz (before said game was made proprietary) to keep it free and in turn derived from Darkplaces game engine making it a Quake family.
Mesa 21.3 is here three and a half months after Mesa 21.2 to further improve Linux’s number one graphics stack. It brings many great improvements, starting with official OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance for Collabora’s Panfrost driver, threaded shader compilation for the Iris driver, OpenGL ES 3.2 support for the Zink driver, and support for AV1 […]
Clapper is a GNOME media player. It’s built using GJS (GNOME JavaScript bindings) with the GTK4 toolkit, so you’ll see some of the new GTK4 features in action. The media player uses GStreamer as a media backend and renders everything via OpenGL. GTK is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user […]
The biggest new feature of the Firefox 94 release is the enablement of the EGL (OpenGL) API for handling graphics context management on X11 for Intel/AMD users using recent Mesa graphics stacks. This feature replaces the old GLX implementation and promises to offer a performance boost on Intel/AMD hybrid machines. After upgrading to Firefox 94, […]
Here we explore why many games that don’t have a high demand for resources suffer in Linux. This includes a look at OpenGL, Vulkan, and DirectX.
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