Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD.

Thibault Payet's presentation covered the various options for gaming on FreeBSD as well as the benefits of Linuxulator-Steam-Utils. With the "LSU" approach are workarounds for taking care of GPU acceleration issues, a user chroot to use the Steam runtime, Wine-Proton support, and also gamepad support for Linux games. Linuxulator-Steam-Utils is available via GitHub for those wanting to check it out.

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Researchers at Nanjing Forestry University and Tsinghua University recently introduced a new approach to convert polystyrene (PS), a plastic widely used to pack some foods and other products, into toluene, a hydrocarbon that is of value in industrial and manufacturing settings. Their proposed strategy, outlined in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, entails heating polystyrene waste in hydrogen and breaking it down into smaller vapor molecules, a process known as hydro-pyrolysis.

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This app has been under development for a few months now and is ready for use.

Should be available on Google play first. IOS in the works and released soon.

If your a developer who can contribute and make it even better that is welcomed it's still very early.