Applications and Operating Systems
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Applications
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Digital Camera World ☛ GIMP review: free photo editing software that does a reasonable job
GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program is a popular and completely free photo editing software that's similar to Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo 2. As you'd expect, being free and open source, is that it's severely limited in comparison, but it does provide features and functionality that allow you to make a variety of adjustments to your photos.
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XDA ☛ Hands-on: Ueli is a launcher you can use on Windows, macOS, and Linux — and it's pretty good
If you're looking for an app launcher that works consistently across different desktop operating systems, Ueli may be the one for you.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Arca Noae ☛ Why update or upgrade to ArcaOS 5.1.1?
ArcaOS 5.1.1, over a year and a half in development, incorporates over 50 improvements and refinements, from smoother installation and better integration with other operating systems to better stability and usability of the system. Here are a few points to consider from the changelog: [...]
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BSD
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Brian Callahan ☛ State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon
I am back to daily driving macOS, for the first time since the PowerPC days. I went from a G4 to an M4. But one thing I still want to keep up on is OpenBSD development and the happenings of the other BSDs. Having a virtualized OpenBSD/aarch64 machine is great because it gives me another platform to test ports and other things on. I do also have low-powered mini PCs running FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but those are both amd64 machines.
When we ported the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64, we used Apple's virtualization framework in the form of VirtualBuddy. The virtualization framework says that you can run macOS or Linux on it. I have indeed gotten Debian 12.9 to run on VirtualBuddy but I find it is not as good as running in VMWare Fusion.
This got me thinking: can we run any of the BSDs on the virtualization framework?
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