Games: ENCODYA, Stadia and More

• Save the world in the dark sci-fi adventure ENCODYA out now

  ENCODYA is an adventure that follows a little girl with a world-changing plan and her big clumsy robot, set in a dark and grey cyberpunk Neo-Berlin it's a pretty bleak future. Note: key provided by the publisher. You know what I always find interesting about games like this? We've gone from them being total fiction, to often mirroring exactly how things seem to be going. Alarming in many ways but thankfully due to the stories they tell, they can often bring a bit of needed escapism in troubling times. ENCODYA is exactly that. [...] Not many downsides to it overall, although I do think you already need to appreciate object hunting point and click adventures to enjoy it, even on "Easy" mode. SAM, your big robot friend, also needs to move out the damn way when you're doing something as it's often in the way and that does become a nuisance because SAM sticks out like a sore thumb often. For the Linux version, I've got absolutely no complaints and the performance was fantastic. So on a technical point, it was really great. If you enjoy good looking point and click puzzlers, especially if they make you scratch your head along with an interesting story - ENCODYA seems like a good choice.

• Gaming On LINUX: A Beginner's Guide

  Windows has been dominating the gaming space on PCs. Many people switch to Linux either for work purposes or just to try out a new flavour of an operating system, but are left aloof when it comes to gaming. Linux has a lot of flavours and customizations available. You can customize every aspect of the system. If you have a Linux based system and are looking to play games on it then this is a guide to help you find and play the best games for your system. [...] There are several tools such as PlayOnLinux, which allow you to run Games and Windows applications on Linux, which uses WINE and installs the game natively as you would on a Windows PC.

• Stadia gets Journey to the Savage Planet free for Pro, Madden NFL 21 coming | GamingOnLinux

  Stadia continues building up a nice selection of games for those interested in the convenience game streaming offers, with more titles announced now. One I've seen a lot of Stadia users ask for is more Madden and this has been answered, as Madden NFL 21 will be releasing January 28 along with a Free Weekend for Stadia Pro subscribers.

Looks Like Fedora 34 Workstation Will Ship with the GNOME 40 Desktop by Default

The Fedora development team decided not to break protocol and continue following the latest upstream GNOME releases for its next major release, Fedora 34. As you probably know already, Canonical recently revealed that its upcoming Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) distro release won’t ship with GNOME 40 due its major UI redesign. This won’t happen with Fedora Linux, as it looks like the upcoming Fedora Linux 34 release will offer a pure GNOME 40 desktop experience on its flagship ‘Workstation’ edition. As GNOME 40 is built using the latest GTK 4 toolkit, that will be included as well in Fedora 34, due for release in late April 2021.

Android Leftovers

• Samsung Galaxy A02 goes official with MediaTek MT6739W SoC and Android 10

• OnePlus brings the new OxygenOS 11 launcher to some older phones

• Poco X2 starts receiving Android 11 through MIUI 12.1 update: Everything that's new

• The Samsung Galaxy S10 Android 11 update is rolling out again

• Android 12 beta updates, features and what to expect from the new OS

• Top 9 Best Telemedicine Android Apps – 2021

• Tasker's Android phone automation connects with Google Assistant

• Motorola launches MOTOTRBO™ Smart Radio with full Android interface

• Google Chrome Canary is rolling out a Read Later feature to save articles on Android

• Google Lens on Android can now translate text while offline

• Netflix brings ‘studio-quality’ audio to Android devices with latest update

Latest on CentOS

• CentOS Linux ending because "Red Hat simply refused to invest in it" | TechRadar

• The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

  Brian Exelbierd, responsible for Red Hat liaison with the CentOS project and a board member of that project, has told The Register that CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat simply refused to invest in it. Early last month Red Hat shocked users of CentOS, a free community build of the same sources that make up the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by revealing that CentOS Linux would cease and be replaced by CentOS Stream, a build of what is likely to be in the next RHEL update. What happened, and how is it possible that the supposedly independent CentOS project conformed to a change of direction that was not driven by the wishes of its own members? "Red Hat participates in lots of open-source projects and communities. Red Hat sponsors some open-source projects and communities," said Exelbierd. "CentOS is a sponsored project, we are the funding agent and we happen to also be a heavy contributor. We have learned that open-source communities do well with independence. We let those governing bodies govern."

• CloudLinux Hopes to Release CentOS Replacement AlmaLinux This Week | Data Center Knowledge

  It is one of two CentOS clones being built to fill the void left by Red Hat's unpopular decision to end CentOS's role as a downstream version of RHEL.

• CloudLinux Expands Its Extended Lifecycle Support Services to Cover More End-of-Life Linux Distributions | Business Wire

  CloudLinux announces the expansion of its affordable Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) services for Linux distributions, by providing its own updates and security patches for several years after expiration of the products’ end-of-life date. For example, support for CentOS 6 from Red Hat expired November 30 last year.