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Xbox One wireless dongle driver for Linux 'xow' gets a new release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2020

xow is another fantastic bit of open source, enabling the use of an Xbox One wireless dongle on Linux to be a much nicer experience overall.

Lenovo adding Ubuntu & Red Hat on their entire ThinkStation and ThinkPad P lines

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2020

Today, hardware vendor Lenovo announced something quite huge for the Linux community with the addition of more Linux devices becoming easily available.

Raspberry Pi 4 goes 8GB, plus new 64bit OS

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2020

The highly versatile Raspberry Pi 4 now has a new 8GB model and their official Debian-based operating system has a new 64bit version for you to play with.

AMD Zen 3 will work with older 400 Series motherboards

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

AMD recently announced that for Zen 3, it wouldn't work on older motherboard chipsets but they've taken on feedback and found a way around it.

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NVIDIA have now formally announced the Ampere GPU architecture

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2020

Today, NVIDIA released a series of videos with CEO Jensen Huang, taking place instead of the cancelled GTC conference and the Ampere GPU architecture was revealed.

Move over Stream Deck, give me some Stream Pi

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2020

The Stream Deck from Elgato is a nifty little bit of hardware, helping out anyone who does video content have access to a ton of commands at the touch of a button and now it has some more open competition with the Stream Pi.

AMD detail future plans for socket AM4 and Zen 3 compatibility, no Zen 3 for older chipsets

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

If you're keeping an eye on the latest AMD processors coming, you might want to sit down and take a look at a recent post from AMD detailing their support plans for socket AM4 and Zen 3 compatibility.

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The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2020

Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.

Intel reveals brand new desktop processors along with their Core i9-10900K flagship

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Intel have now fully revealed their latest processors today, with the Core i9-10900K now their flagship with a claim of it being "the world's fastest gaming processor".

If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.

AMD's Q1 2020 financial report out - RDNA 2 and Zen 3 on track for this year

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2020

AMD recently released a fresh financial report and while they have strong growth year-over-year, things are looking a bit more tough overall.

Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2020

As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.

AMD announces the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X budget processors and a new B550 chipset

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is a brand of special hardware primarily aimed at PC gaming and work is now underway by the community to better support their laptops on Linux.

A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2020

We have no idea if Valve will ever do a proper second revision of the Steam Controller, we've seen hints before and now we have more info on what it could have been.

The System76 'Lemur Pro' laptop is available now with Coreboot and open source firmware

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2020

System76 have now fully revealed the 'Lemur Pro' laptop, and not only is it powerful and good-looking it's also their most open laptop yet.

The Atari VCS is in trouble again as Rob Wyatt sues Atari for lack of payment

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2020

Rob Wyatt, the architect behind the original Xbox and someone Atari hired to work on the Atari VCS system is now suing Atari over their failure to actually pay up.