Developers of eight Linux distributions specializing in providing environments for running computer games have formed the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) working group for the collaborative development of a unified set of components and the promotion of prepared changes to the core of the projects that make up the open gaming stack. The initiative has been joined by the distributions Universal Blue (Bazzite), Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and ASUS Linux.
It is expected that collaboration on overlapping tasks across different distributions will free up time and allow a focus on developing functionality specific to each distribution. When creating patches for existing packages, participants will strive, whenever possible, to get the prepared changes accepted in the main projects (upstream) instead of maintaining separate sets of patches tied to the packages provided in the distributions.
Currently, two projects have been launched in OGC — a package with the OGC Kernel Linux kernel, focused on optimal performance and efficiency when running gaming applications, and a fork of the composite Gamescope developed by Valve, which includes support for additional hardware. server OGC also plans to collaboratively develop the background process InputPlumber for handling events from various input devices and patches for different Valve packages used in SteamOS.
The Bazzite distribution, based on Fedora Silverblue technologies and optimized for gaming, has decided to adopt the OGC Kernel, replace HHD (HandHeld Daemon) with InputPlumber, integrate RGB lighting control and cooler management support into the Steam UI, and begin testing the use of Faugus Launcher as a potential replacement for the Lutris platform.
Source: opennet.ru
