GNOME’s New Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Features
Loupe (aka Image Viewer) is GNOME’s modern successor to the venerable Eye of GNOME has picked up its first batch of image editing features. The features in question were only recently merged upstream, aren’t finished, and not yet included in a stab...
New Open Source Terminal App Ghostty is Spookily Good
We’re seeing something of a terminal emulator renaissance of late with the humble no-frills console being reimagined, rethought, and rewired to use GPU acceleration, containerised workflows, and (naturally) AI. Ghostty is a new, open-source and cros...
Ghostty: New Open Source Terminal That’s Spookily Good
We’re seeing something of a terminal emulator renaissance of late, with developers keen to reimagine, rethink, and rewire the humble console to leverage GPU acceleration, containerised workflows, and (in some cases) integrate AI/LLMs. Ghostty is a n...
Emulating HP-UX using QEMU
While we’re out here raising funds to make me daily-drive HP-UX 11i v1 – we’re at 59% of the goal, so I’m starting to prepare for the pain – it seems you can actually run older versions, HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 to be specific, in a virtual mach...
A systemd-sysupdate plugin for GNOME Software
In late June 2024 I got asked to take over the work started by Jerry Wu creating a systemd-sysupdate plugin for Software. The goal was to allow Software to update sysupdate targets, such as base system images or system extension images, all while...
A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR
An interesting "request for comments" proposal I have been meaning to write about since last month is in-development work developing "Safe C++" as an extension to the LLVM Clang compiler and making use of the new, in-development ClangIR...
