NVIDIA Physx is going open source

Read the full thing at https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/12/03/physx-high-fidelity-open-source/

In 2010, we announced Steam Play: a way for Steam users to access Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Steam games with a single purchase. More than 3000 of the games that have been added to Steam after that point have included Linux support, with more titles being added every day. Since then, we've continued to look for ways to make more titles easily accessible to Linux users.

Read the full thing at https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410#announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

4MLinux is a lightweight Linux distribution that can turn your old computer into a functional one with multimedia support, maintenance tools and classic games.

Read the full thing at https://itsfoss.com/4mlinux-review/

Recently I wanted to deepen my understanding of bash by researching as much of it as possible. Because I felt bash is an often-used (and under-understood) technology, I ended up writing a book on it.

Read the full thing at https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/

We know that using swap space instead of RAM can severely slow down the performance of Linux. So then, one might ask, since I have more than enough RAM available, wouldn't it better to remove swap space completely?

The short answer is, No. There are performance benefits when swap is enabled, even when you have more than enough RAM.

Read the full thing at https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-space/

The new Firefox Quantum browser from Mozilla brough tons of new features and updates. It is now faster, lighter and more organized than ever it was before. However, with the new Firefox Quantum technologies which detached the older APIs used for complete themes and other add-ons, users were having a hard time customizing the browser's interface.

https://fosspost.org/tutorials/how-to-customize-firefox-57-user-interface

Just as a reminder, Mageia is an off-spring from the famous Mandriva family that survived when the Mandriva tree crashed.

Read the full thing at http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2017/08/mageia-6-is-it-rise-of-phoenix.html

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far! It comes with many new and exciting features, a new range of installation media and the usability and stability that can be expected from any Mageia release. See the Release Notes for extensive details.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/07/16/announcing-mageia-6/

We all love paintings. Paintings are a sort of art that are mystically beautiful, exploring and blazing. Nowadays on Linux, there are many powerful applications that are available for painting and drawing purposes but Krita is one of them that stands out of everything.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/krita-creative-sketching-and-painting-application-for-linux

In an extraordinary blog post that I have yet to fully digest, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is to end its investment in Unity 8, Mir, Ubuntu for phones and tablets, and will no longer pursue its goal of "convergence"

Read the full thing at http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-18-04-ship-gnome-desktop-not-unity