ArcticFox 27.9.19 release

Arctic Fox 27.9.19 has been released!

Plenty of enhancements, still supports your trusty Mac from 10.6 up and Linux PowerPC!

Arctic Fox on Devuan amd64

Code has been fixed to support newer compilers. On Linux, currently, the highest supported compiler remains gcc 6.5, more recent versions do compile now with this release, but fail to link afterwards with errors on very standard symbols. Help appreciated! On NetBSD gcc 7 now works fine instead.

ArcticFox has working DevTools again

The past release of 27.9.15 ArcticFox has the Developer Tools working again, they were broken previously because of excessive work on Private browsing.

You can see them here in full action:

ArcticFox continues the work as a fork of PaleMoon trying to catch up with past releases of FireFox.
It has been succesfully backported up to MacOS 10.6 SnowLeopard, is working reliably on Linux x86, amd64 and PowerPC 32bit and 64bit.

If you like the browser, we need your help!

GIMP 2.10.6 working on MacOS Leopard!

My white MacBook is a perfectly fine computer, has an excellent screen and keyboard (superior to later models I have) so even if it is running a legacy OS version, I'd love to continue using it and, perhaps, other of you are in the same situation.

Besides ArcticFox (which I got running on 10.6, but not on 10.5 yet) and various developer tools, the most essential tool I like to have is GIMP, also given the excellent LCD this Laptop has.

Some work from macports to get up-to-date tools and dependent libraries, I patched its package.

Little work was needed in GIMP itself, I shared all the patches upstream and I hope they will be accepted. The remaining issues are in GEGL, but different solutions are available: essentially realpath doesn't like a null argument.

Enjoy this screenshot as a proof.

Next question: will it work on PowerPC too? I hope so! Getting GIMP to work on 10.5 opens this possibility.

P.S.: this post was written directly on the MacBook i386 using TenFourFox running natively on Intel!