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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by user68k@wired.bluemarch.art to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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[–] jayk@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago (30 children)

can they unfreeze the name?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They won't. It's an old topic and they are clear about not changing the name. Anyone having a problem can fork and rename the project. But it seems not to be a big issue that nobody wants to do it.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I believe that there is a project that aims to do just this but I can't remember its name.

[–] oneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Glimpse, but it died in 2021.

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