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2D point and click game "Duck Detective: The Secret Salami" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free at GOG.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/duck_detective_the_secret_salami
Semi FOSS BIOS "Coreboot" has been updated to version 24.05. This update adds support for twenty five new motherboards, fixes for clang support, added support for EL2/EL3 onm ARM64, and more. The code to Coreboot is licensed using GPLv2.0. The reason I call it semi FOSS is that it does have to include varying levels of closed source blobs to make many models work. Having some FOSS in Coreboot beats having a fully closed source BIOS though and it is a good step for users to take to get more privacy and security for their devices.
The project's main website is here:
The code is hosted on Github:
https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot
The release notes for this update are here:
https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2024/05/23/coreboot-24-05-release/
The project has a presense on Mastodon:
https://firmware.network/coreboot
There is a more thorough writeup on this release by Phoronix:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-24.05-Released
If you wish to donate to the Coreboot project you can do so through Paypal; cheque or wire transfer.
We are finally going to upgrade our #ejabberd running on conversations.im, tomorrow, Saturday May 25th.
Unfortunately we won’t be able to do this without some down times throughout the day.
You can visit https://status.conversations.im/ for a simple up/down check or follow this thread for the occasional status update / progress report.
FOSS emulation software "Hangover" has been updated to version 9.9. Hangover is based off Wine but allows it to run x86 software on ARM64 and PowerPC64 devices. This update rebases the Wine code against the Wine 9.9, updates its FEX emulator integration to FEX2405, added support for the NTSYNC driver, performance improvements and more. The code is licensed using LGPLv2.1. Currently you have to build the project from source.
The sourece code is available on Github:
https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover
The release notes for this update are here:
https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/releases/tag/hangover-8.17
If you wish to support the project financially the lead developer André Zwing accepts donations through Liberpay; Ko-Fi; as well as having a Throne Wishlist:
https://liberapay.com/andre_opensource
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.