Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here! Let us explore how to download and install GIMP 3.0 on Linux, as well as the new features in this version.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/download-of-the-day-gimp-3-0-is-finally-here/

One hour after voting closed, candidates received email from
#OpenSource Initiative Elections Team — it asks us to sign Board
Agreement (w/ DocuSign) by WED 2025-03-19 17:00 UTC. — “For your name to be considered by the
board as we compute & review the outcomes of… polls”.

*But*, #OSI said at orientation that only seated Directors, not candidates, must sign this agreement.

Can anyone explain why OSI
now asks both winning & losing candidates to sign this urgently?

https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/17/sign-board-agreement-to-be-considered.html

Greetings Programs!! We're 14 days away from @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 2 and wow do I wish I had more time...

Anyways come watch me panic as I try to get everything in this release that I want to!!

https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim

Good things come to those who wait, and for fans of a certain famed FOSS image editor, the wait is now over: GIMP 3.0 has landed! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/gimp-3-0

Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-325/

GIMP 3.0 available, guys! https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ #Gimp #OpenSource #Windows #MacOS #FOSS #Linux

And the winner is... @Blender makes it to the big screen in Oscar-winning animated film "Flow"
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Blender-App-Makes-it-to-the-Big-Screen
#Blender #OpenSource #3D #software #FOSS #EEVEE

Ever worried about other users on your Linux server seeing what processes are running? The `hidepid` kernel feature is your friend! It makes processes invisible to anyone but the owner and root user, even in system monitoring tools like ps, top, htop, and btop. This is a great way to prevent sensitive information (like API keys or passwords used in command-line arguments) from being exposed. See how to configure it https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-hide-processes-from-other-users/ for more info.

New on // foss.events: Freedom not Fear on 26-29 September 2025 in #Brussels, #Belgium

Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/09-26-freedom-not-fear.html

Official account: @fnf
Official hashtag(s): #fnf #fnf25

Wow! Thank you so much for adding so many events to // foss.events, making it a reliable source for everyone looking for FOSS events in Europe <3

And if you still miss an event (especially in the still empty areas of UK, France, Italy, Greece, Scandinavia and everything East of Brodnica/ Novi Sad) don't hesitate and add your event now!

https://foss.events/new-event

The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Pro tip: You can use `sudo pkg version -vRL=` command to list all upgradeable packages on FreeBSD and then apply those updates using pkg. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/pkg-command-list-upgradeable-packages-freebsd/ for more info.

#GIMP 3.0 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-0-image-editor-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

Zed with native Git support is worth checking out:

https://news.itsfoss.com/zed-git-support/

The @eff made a wonderful project called rayhunter. It detects modern cell site simulators (aka stingrays, fake cell towers).

But it doesn't work out of the box on Debian and when I offered a fix (commands to compile a version for Debian), they didn't like it, suggesting that everyone who uses Debian or Ubuntu 22.04 should set up a rust development environment & compile it themselves.

The beauty of #OpenSource is that I don't have to accept that answer. I'm forking it & adding a Debian release

#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 16th, 2025: #Debian 12.10, #KDE Plasma 6.3.3, #Garuda #COSMIC preview, #DXVK 2.6, #Ubuntu to adopt #Rust-based GNU Coreutils, #GStreamer 1.26, KDE Frameworks 6.12, #ChimeraLinux drops #RISCV support, #Audacity 3.7.2, #digiKam 8.6, #LXQt 2.2 features, #Mesa 25.1 defaulting to NVK, #Bodhi Linux 8 to ship with new theme, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-16th-2025

#Linux 6.14-rc7 is now available for public testing at https://kernel.org and Linus Torvalds says that "things continue to look quite calm, and I expect to release the final 6.14 next weekend." Happy testing!

Really cool project from the French (and German) government: "La Suite Numerique", an open-source, collaborative editor and replacement for #Notion and alike

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
#foss #opensource #office

dxvk-nvap 0.9 is out with support for #NVIDIA Reflex for #Vulkan titles, support for reporting driver setting (DRS) to titles, support for permanently setting NGX debug registry settings, improved (non-) SLI detection, and various bug fixes https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/releases/tag/v0.9.0