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This is called Photocraft and it is a pre-implementation of Photoshop itself done with AI but it is all brand new code using Rust so technically there's probably zero lines of code that are the exact same as with Photoshop because I don't think it has been written in Rust and it is fully open source.

These tools already have multiple versions being pushed out, they run on Linux, on FreeBSD, on macOS and on Windows, it works entirely offline, it replicates the entire UI of Photoshop, it is GPU accelerated, it opens Photoshop documents as well, and it seems to support a lot of Photoshop's features done exactly as Photoshop does them.

They say opening and resaving PSDs in this tool and then in Photoshop results in the exact same render out of 307 files they tested out of the 309 they had.

They also do say it's currently pre-alpha, so chances are things won't work, things will crash, things will not work exactly like you expect them to.

But the guest OS, again, unfortunately needs to be Windows because that's what the entire ecosystem in the United States, well, really the world at this point, you know, for business runs.

Okay, the big stuff is Linux these days, some FreeBSD, but when you get down to the individual desktop that an actual human is sitting in front of, you know, numbered in the thousands at large companies, those are Windows boxes pretty much every time.

And at a bare minimum, you need that guest operating system to be designed, again, with the idea of making all this stuff seamless.

Because if Windows doesn't know that it's supposed to be designed to expect hardware pass-through and all this other stuff, and it needs to cooperate with all of it, you're gonna run into jank, it's gonna confuse people, and you're not going to be able to hire normal humans at scale.

The, the device tree work is often overlooked, but it can be one of the biggest barriers to porting Linux precisely because no one wants to do it.

Let's continue to liberate Apple hardware from overpriced freeBSD.

Thoughts, guys? This came off the Li- Linux subreddit.

Yeah.

And they're just not the thing anybody... you know, a voluntary developer is going to do in their spare time because it's all the janitorial type stuff.

And by actually being able to fund developers to do that work, and it's done a lot for a lot of projects, whether that's OpenSSL and FreeBSD and all kinds of different open source projects have got really useful help from projects like the Sovereign Tech Agency, or there's another one called Alpha Omega that's focused on helping projects stand up better vulnerability reporting and making sure that they can handle the fact that with AI now, every project's getting vulnerabilities found against it.

And projects that previously didn't really have the whole infrastructure of a security team need to be able to deal with these bug reports.

And maybe they didn't have the structure and the policies in place to do that.

It's just sort of gently guiding, you know, people who want to donate to the people who need the donations.

Mohan, who's a patron, wrote to us, hello, gents, just wanted to share this blog post I came across.

And this is the FreeBSD Foundation's Netflix case study.

So basically, Netflix is kind of running its own sub-distro version of FreeBSD.

Well, when are you even going to run on it?

I loaded FreeBSD on it from a CD, mind you, and it's running.

I forgot the root password I put on it, so I'm going to be installing it again.

You can do puppy Linux or something like that.