Mastodawn

We just released Krita 5.3 and 6.0!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/

Krita 5.3.0 Released!

Today is the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0! Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identical, with 6.0.0 having more Wayland functionality.

Krita

Aleksandr Prokudin Mar 20

KiCad 10.0 is out with a bunch of improvements

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03/Version-10.0.0-Released/

Version 10.0.0 Released

It’s the turning of the seasons today, and to celebrate, the KiCad project is proud to announce the release of Version 10! This release is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We hope you enjoy it! Head to the KiCad download page to get your copy (note that some packages may still be in the process of being released at the time this announcement is published). Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to KiCad this past year. Whether your contribution was large or small, writing code, submitting bug reports, improving our libraries and documentation, or just supporting us financially: your help made a difference. Read on to see some of the highlights of the new version!

Aleksandr Prokudin Mar 17

Michael B. Johnson Mar 17

During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?

3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.

Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?

No.

IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.

So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.

It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.

Plenty for Finding Nemo.

Aleksandr Prokudin Mar 13

I guess this is grub-coding then 🤣

Source: https://www.threads.com/@lucamarchicaa/post/DVzsgLiEcl0

Aleksandr Prokudin Mar 12

Robin Gareus Mar 12

Last call to submit papers, music or demos for the #Linuxaudio Conference.

https://lac26.mucs.club/

LAC is the international conference about Free/Open-Source Software for music, sound, and other media with GNU/Linux as the main platform. The 2026 edition, is hosted on Maynooth University campus, Dublin, Ireland.

Submission deadline got extended to March/18.

#conference #audio

LAC 2026

Aleksandr Prokudin Mar 3

Here is a really decent attempt to create a FOSS replacement for RME TotalMix FX

https://librearts.org/2026/03/introducing-oscmix/

Meet oscmix, RME Fireface control app

This free/libre application replaces RME TotalMix FX on Linux

Libre Arts

Aleksandr Prokudin Feb 23

Elektroid 3.3 is out with Korg Volca Sample / Sample 2 support and various audio recording and editing improvements

https://librearts.org/2026/02/elektroid-3-3/

Elektroid 3.3 released

New version comes with KORG Volca Sample and KORG padKONTROL support

Libre Arts

Aleksandr Prokudin Feb 22

mcc Feb 22

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil

Aleksandr Prokudin Feb 21

I thought I was going crazy. But no, turns out pull-down resistors just don't work on Pico 2.

https://www.doctormonk.com/2024/09/are-pico-2-rp2350-gpio-pins-broken.html

Are the Pico 2 (RP2350) GPIO pins broken?

TLDR; A little bit, yes, but it probably doesn't matter. The new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 mostly represents a bump in performance and memory. A ...

Aleksandr Prokudin Feb 4

CmykStudent Feb 4

I did #globalgamejam this weekend, and one of my teammates used Procreate. He shared palette swatches which I could not open in @GIMP ...

...I took that as a personal challenge. :)

Afterwards I reviewed the files (zipped JSON) and few others I found online, and submitted a merge request to add initial support.

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