Ondsel recently started shutting down its operation, so there will be no more releases of Ondsel Engineering Suite, a custom build of FreeCAD with various improvements. Many people loved the look of Ondsel ES and its defaults. So much so that some requ…

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Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and Annotator, DIGImend’s developer resigns, Blender Studio publishes the Project Gold showcase.

GIMP 3.0rc1

The GIMP team finally released the first release candidate of v3.0.

Main changes as compar…

Week highlights: Ondsel is shutting down; new releases of Audacity, Shotcut, fudge, qpwgraph, Qtractor; videos from KiCon Europe 2024; FreeCAD news.

fudge 0.2

Even though the newer official Fujifilm app is surprisingly usable (I can’t say …

Two and a half years ago, LWN posted my introduction to CLAP, a new MIT-licensed API for audio and MIDI plugin developers. The response to CLAP was mixed: some users and developers welcomed the new API, but some expressed skepticism. Let’s take a look …

Week highlights: Dune 3D release, newly discovered projects for musicians and astrophotographers, an update on Scribus development.

Astra Lite and Electra Stacking

Astrophotographers who choose Linux don’t have a terrible lot of options. M…

Week highlights: new releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on upcoming major releases from GIMP and FreeCAD.
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David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for devices by Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation.
The project started out as a FOSS alternative to Electron Transfer, then the developer merged code f…

There’s a million reasons why you would want to record audio coming from your browser, some — innocuous, some — nefarious. You can definitely record blank video with just the sound in OBS, but that’s not necessarily what you want.
So to rec…