PlayStation 3 Emulator Adds Support for Raspberry Pi 5

RPCS3 is an open-source emulator (and debugger) for the Sony PlayStation 3, making it possible for users to play and debug PlayStation 3 games on non-PS3 hardware, like Intel/AMD desktop PCs and laptops running Windows, […]

10 December 2024

Raspberry Pi 500 & Official USB Monitor Announced

In the mood for something sweet? Raspberry Pi has unveiled its new Raspberry Pi 500, an updated version of its keyboard PC powered by a Raspberry Pi 5. That’s not all, though. The British-based company […]

9 December 2024

OBS Studio Update Adds New Features, Drops 22.04 Support

For high-quality screen recording and streaming from the desktop nothing comes close to matching the power and versatility of cross-platform and open-source OBS Studio – this weekend a new version went live. What’s new in […]

8 December 2024

Linux 6.12 Kernel Confirmed as Long-Term Support Version

Last month’s Linux 6.12 kernel was a big update filled with new features, hardware support, and performance tune-ups. Now, it’s just gotten even sweeter: it’s an LTS! Those au fait with kernel development won’t be […]

6 December 2024

COSMIC DE Alpha 4 Released, This is What’s New

Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76, continues at pace, with a 4th alpha now available. System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would […]

5 December 2024

Mozilla Formally Unveils its Rawr-Some New Branding

Mozilla has finally unwrapped its new branding, describing the first refresh to its logo in over a decade as not merely ‘a facelift’ but an effort to lay foundations for the company’s next 25 years. […]

5 December 2024

Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How

Tab groups are a nifty productivity feature already available in web browsers like Google Chrome and Vivaldi — now they’re coming to Mozilla Firefox. Except, that isn’t news, is it? Mozilla announced a series of […]

4 December 2024

Flexbar Brings Apple’s Touch Bar Back from the Dead

A new crowdfunding project aims to revive Apple’s (oft-derided) Touch Bar, but not as part of a laptop but a standalone USB device that work with Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s called Flexbar, and it’s […]

3 December 2024

Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Brings New Look, New Features

A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been released with a raft of improvements. As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 comes preinstalled in the latest Linux Mint 22.1 release. This […]

2 December 2024
HandBrake app logo on a colourful background

HandBrake 1.9 Brings Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoding

A major new update to the powerful open source video converter HandBrake is available. In the 6 months (give or take) since the HandBrake 1.8 release arrived with its GTK4 (but not libadwaita) GUI in […]

1 December 2024

Discord Screen Share Audio Now Works on Linux

If you’re an avid user of the Discord Linux app and been annoyed that screen share audio doesn’t work, there’s good news: it now does! The latest version of Discord for Linux at long last […]

30 November 2024
Calibre Ebook Manager logo on a cutout against a pile of books (image from Unsplash)

Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option

Calibre 7.22 is out — and yes, I’m making extra special effort to not mangle the version number this release as I always seem to insert an extra period in the string whenever I cover […]

29 November 2024