30+ South Korean Governmental Organizations, Local Governments And Schools Have Switched To Linux and more will do so in the near-future. linuxreviews.org/30%2B_South…

GIMP 2.99.6 Is Released. It may be worth a try if you want to know what #GIMP 3.0 will be like, but it is nowhere near ready to replace the stable GIMP 2.10.xx branch. linuxreviews.org/GIMP_2.99.6…

PictureFrame, or "PictureFrame . #App", is supposedly a image viewer for photo frames built using the #GNUstep framework. It does not seem capable of actually displaying images. #PictureFrame is therefore useless and a complete waste of time. linuxreviews.org/PictureFram…

Tor 0.4.5.8 Is Released. There's just two minor bug fixes, not anything particularly important in this #tor release. linuxreviews.org/Tor_0.4.5.8…

New Versions Of The GNUstep Base Library, GUI library, GUI Backend And #GNUstep Gorm Are Released linuxreviews.org/New_Version…

AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Is Re-Compiled And Re-Released. The actual #Vulkan API portions of the re-released AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 for #AMD GPUs remain the same. linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK_2021…

AMD Radeon Open Compute 4.2 Is Released There is nothing new for desktop users who want #OpenCL support, though there are improvements for AMDs datacenter customers. linuxreviews.org/AMD_Radeon_…

Mousepad 0.5.5 Is Released With Client Side Decorations And Spellchecking. (It's a light-weight text editor primarily for the #xfce desktop environment) @XfceNation linuxreviews.org/Mousepad_0.…

GNU Chess 6.2.8 Is Released. The GNU chess engine has grown very smart during it's 37 years, and you may find that you will have a very hard time beating it. linuxreviews.org/GNU_Chess_6…

Video: Termite Is Dead. Dev Lashes Out At GNOME linuxreviews.org/Termite_Is_…

Genesis is a pretty cool PC demo scene demo for Windows made by the Norwegians in 2006. It runs fine in #Wine at native speeds since it uses #OpenGL to render the graphics. linuxreviews.org/Genesis

Wine 6.8 Is Released With 35 Bug-Fixes linuxreviews.org/Wine_6.8_Is…

A few Gallium Nine benchmarks comparing it's performance with #Mesa 21.1 again DXVK 1.8.1-78-git and wined3d in Wine 6.7. It's the best performing option for running #DirectX9 in #Wine on #linux, but it's not that much faster than #DXVK. linuxreviews.org/Gallium_Nin…

What, if any, are cool #DirectX 9 benchmarks?

The handy #rmw (ReMove to Waste) shell utility for moving files to a waste folder, instead of immediately deleting them, got another bug-fix release. Filenames now display correctly when using the -vvg option. That's it, that's all there is to rmw v0.7.09. linuxreviews.org/Rmw_v0.7.09…

Mesa 21.1.0 Is Released With Variable Rate Shading Support For #AMD GPUs, Performance Improvements And New #Vulkan Extensions linuxreviews.org/Mesa_21.1.0…

GNU Zile 2.6.2 Is Released!! Zile is a very minimal Emacs clone that is described in the brief manual page as "Zile Is Lossy Emacs". Zile developer Reuben Thomas is "happy to announce a shiny new 2.6.2 release of #GNU Zile" is exactly one bug-fix. linuxreviews.org/GNU_Zile_2.…

ShellCheck is like a SpellCheck for shell scripts. It will analyze your #shell #scripts and point out many of the embarrassing mistakes, flaws and potential corner-case problems you made writing them and propose changes. It is absolutely worth using. linuxreviews.org/ShellCheck

QEMU 6.0 Is Released With A Long List Of New Features linuxreviews.org/QEMU_6.0_Is…

Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 Is Released With Speedy Trial Taproot Activation #Taproot will (if activated) make complex #Bitcoin transactions as expensive as regular #BTC transactions. linuxreviews.org/Bitcoin_Cor…