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Play Roblox on Linux without Wine, using Sober

Roblox does not officially support Linux, but Linux users can run using Sober, an unofficial third-party ‘port’ that works without Wine (hence the name). I know; this isn’t a ‘game’ most of you are itching to play. Roblox users are mostly under 16, access it via mobiles and have an unhealthy interest in Robux, the in-game virtual currency. But you may – as I – have snotty relatives who demand to play it on your laptop because their tablet needs charging… Performance ‘the same or better’ than Windows Sober is a ‘specialised runtime just for Roblox’s code’ made by the Vinegar project, […]

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 4th, 2026

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 4th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 157, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09, Thunderbird 157, Shotcut 26.9, Parrot OS 7.4, OpenShot 4.0.1, antiX Linux 26.1, Audacity 4.0.1, Emmabuntüs DE6 1.03, qBittorrent 5.2.4, Nitrux 7.0, LibreOffice 26.8.1, Arch Linux 2026.10.01, Darktable 5.6.2, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Git 2.56, and Flatpak 1.18.4, Archinstall 4.5, OpenSSL 4.0.3, and more.

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OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss

This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...