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Krita 5.0

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

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Migrating Dillo from GitHub

I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I decided to move away from it into a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors in other forges.

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OpenTTD 1.10

We thought we should give everyone currently under quarantine/lockdown/shelter-in-place something to do with their time, so we decided to release a new version of your favourite game! Not like it’s the same time we do releases every year or anything!

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Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk

I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just have to walk away from an issue or request and let it die from lack of attention. But I do my best, and I take the time to provide meaningful answers whenever…

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QEMU 6.0

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.0.0 release. This release contains 3300+ commits from 268 authors.

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Firefox 118

Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.

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Mojo is now open source

The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and distributing binaries compiled from Mojo. We want you to be able to adopt…

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Firefox 60 released

Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment . This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to customize your New Tab/Firefox Home. It also introduces support for the Web Authentication API, which means you…