Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2023
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=> ↺ LibreArts Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, LSP plugins, Geonkick, Sigil; great new features in GIMP and Ardour; a new materials system is coming to FreeCAD, some rather depressing news about Olive.
CmykStudent added Adobe Swatch Exchange palette importing, with support for RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, and LAB CIE palette colors.
Martin Owens has been busy with various things related to text support in CMYK PDF exporting.
=> ↺ Some thoughts on Mastodon search
The latest version of Mastodon includes search functionality. It's early days, but seems to work pretty well. Here are some of the interesting things I found when using it.
=> ↺ Escape from System D, episode VIII: the Road Behind is Longer
Amazingly, there are now at least two distributions which allow use of Dinit as the init system. One is Chimera, the other is Artix. These are both great distributions (but with different goals and likely appealing to different sets of users). A lot of the reviews of Artix on Distrowatch are mentioning Dinit in a really positive light, which is fantastic (Artix also allows the use of runit, OpenRC, and S6 as init system). Meanwhile, Wesley Moore has written about his experiences trying out Chimera Linux. He writes of Dinit specifically: [...]
=> ↺ Things I learned at PerlKohaCon 2023
Some aspects of KohaCon where "ported" to the Perl Conference part (e.g. free attendance as compared the usual fee of €100+ for PerlCon), while we introduced the Koha crowd to features like Lighting Talks. Generally it took some time (and two social events followed by more hanging-out-in-bars) for the two groups to mingle, but at the end of the event I had the feeling that the mixing / unification of the two communities started to happen.
For me (professionally) this event was perfect, as we started to work with Koha a few years ago, and meeting the core devs and other community members makes working with (and on!) Koha much easier.
=> ↺ 6 New books added to Big Book of R
Welcome to another roundup of new additions to the Big Book of R collection of almost 400 books!
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