GLFS News

This section covers noteworthy changes in GLFS. In addition to the entries in the book's changelog, relevant changes you should be aware of are reported here.

GLFS 12.3 has been released!

Zeckma - 2025/03/05

The GLFS team is proud to present version 12.3 of Gaming Linux From Scratch, now matching up with the Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch release scheme. This version includes over 100 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch and Multilib Linux From Scratch books to enable execution of gaming support software. It has over 160 updates since October 26th, 2024, as well as many text and formatting changes.

New in this book is the introduction of the Gstreamer suite, DXVK, and VKD3D-Proton for Wine. On top of this, Mesa's OpenGL libraries are now built instead of libglvnd's. Removed in this version is NVIDIA, libglvnd, GNAT (GCC-Ada), lib32-Check, and x11perf. Smaller changes include not using a prefix for Xorg other than /usr, but sets the prefix for Beyond Linux From Scratch compatibility; Steam can now play games without setting a variable for each game as a fix was made in Multilib Linux From Scratch; and MSVCRT is now the default C Runtime used for the MinGW-w64 toolchain, instead of UCRT.

NVIDIA and libglvnd support is planned for 12.4 but is gone from this release.

This is a coordinated release with GLFS-12.3-systemd.

You can read the 12.3 version via download.

MLFS-12.3 rendering instructions are in the book.

For any issues, please direct them to the issue tracker.

Releases now available

Zeckma - 2025/01/31

Downloadable releases now available.

Chunked HTML releases of GLFS are now available for download.

These releases include both the SysV and Systemd versions of the book.

For any issues, please direct them to the issue tracker.

Systemd Edition now available

Zeckma - 2025/01/15

Systemd support is now available in the book.

Due to Github Pages restraints, this version is not yet rendered online, but you can render it yourself.

For any issues, please direct them to the issue tracker.