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GNUstepOfficial Meeting Aug 8 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcYg-y93450

#gnustep #gershwin

@DebianAstro To tag it for better availability: This is a #Cocoa and #GNUstep application.

#appkit

@wmlive

@grahamperrin Just finished viewing the video and was particularily impressed by the presentation of #gershwin desktop. The desktop features and details demonstrated by @probono are an amazing proposition and will easily rival the more established desktop environments. Obviously, the long term development stamina for #GNUstep starts to pay off.

GNUstep meeting 2026-07-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmRNPGwICA

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1uua5ox/recordings_of_the_gnustep_online_meeting_of/

#AI #Gershwin #FreeBSD #GNUstep

Policy: Use of AI-Generated Content in GNUstep

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2026-03/msg00022.html

#AI #GNUstep #unofficial

Using WebObjects at web-scale with kubernetes and Firebase: my journey to use modern cloud-based deployment and integration with the "heritage" #webobjects web app framework, via #gnustep #gnustepweb and GDL2. https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/using-webobjects-at-web-scale-with-kubernetes-and-firebase/

Using WebObjects at web-scale with kubernetes and Firebase: my journey to use modern cloud-based deployment and integration with the "heritage" #webobjects web app framework, via #gnustep #gnustepweb and GDL2. https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/using-webobjects-at-web-scale-with-kubernetes-and-firebase/

IT LIIIIIIIIIIVES #typingpool #gnustep #linux

I added new articles to gnustep-developer.com. One is about ensuring a shared object gets loaded when it only contains ObjC symbols. The other, which is more important because there aren't other good examples online, is about the structure of NeXT-style app menus that you use on platforms other than macOS: https://gnustep-developer.com/articles/menu-structure/ #gnustep #crossplatform #appkit

@Bright5park

Desktop based on Gnustep:
1. GSDE: https://onflapp.github.io/gs-desktop/index.html
2. NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/
3. Backbone: https://www.nongnu.org/backbone/

#Gnustep #GSDE #NEXTSPACE #Backbone #Unix

This is a interesting programming path with lots curves of interest

#Retro #RetroComputing #NeXT #NeXTSpace #GNUStep #OpenStep #UI #programming #XOrg #XWindows #LLM #AI

NeXTSpace

A wonderful project

NeXTSpace UI based on OpenStep GNUStep has been ported from Linux to BSD

NeXTSpace is modeled on NeXTSTEP a gorgeous UI on the NeXT Computing Workstation

This article has a lot of information so I would advise you to read it if you're interested

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-02-04-a-2025-obsession-nextstep-openstep-and-nextspace/

#Retro #RetroComputing #NeXT #NeXTSpace #GNUStep #OpenStep #UI #programming #XOrg #XWindows #LLM #AI

Dive into the Typing Pool: learn how I used ai-augmented software development techniques to build this handwriting transcription app https://www.patreon.com/chironcodex/posts/dive-into-typing-161506231?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
#gnustep #aisoftware #softwareengineering

My handwriting has always defied optical character recognition, but today I noticed that the Qwen 3.6 model does a very good job at it. So I made a little app with #GNUstep and #Renaissance to drive it, so I can get on with digitising 22 years of career journals (and various other notebooks!). Even automatically diffs any changes I make to the transcription, and feeds them back into the prompt for future iterations.

@gemelen

<https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/wfevxe/comment/oo8jg7h/?context=1> last month (in response to a 2022 comment by Jordan Hubbard).

<https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD/issues/54>

#AI #CI #Claude #Corral #FreeBSD #GitHub #GNUStep #launchd #Mach #NextBSD #RavynOS #TrueNAS

Cc @david_chisnall

Yesterday's #GNUstep meeting dropped news about #NextBSD, a new OS using components from #FreeBSD and #Darwin: launchd, services described by .plist files, in-kernel IOKit over Mach IPC, network stack configured by IPConfiguration talking to configd... http://nextbsd.org

There was a bit of discussion on the #gnustep mailing list about using AppImage as a deployment mechanism for GNUstep apps so people don't have to have all the libraries, helper tools, config, filesystem layout etc. set up just to try an app. So I built a model*: https://github.com/gnustep/tools-make/pull/70

* [Build a Model being a pattern that encourages exploring solutions through working prototypes. I've been clear on the PR what the caveats of the model are. https://www.patreon.com/posts/153181867]

"Previous is a NeXT Computer emulator based on the Atari emulator Hatari. It uses the latest m68k emulation core from WinUAE and the i860 emulator from Jason Eckhardt. Previous works on all systems which are supported by the SDL3 library."

https://previous.nextcommunity.net

#previous #wmlive #nextstep #gnustep

this all now works*! After about an hour of messing with YAML files I have a #gnustep webobjects app deployed to #k8s with an end-to-end pipeline. Using nginx ingress controller to load-balance instead of apache2 mod_gsw.

*still needs a domain name and TLS. I'm using the app's default action as the health endpoint, so I'll add a direct action that returns 204 to make life easier on the app.

Just set up locally deploying a #gnustep gnustepweb ObjC app to Minikube using skaffold. Tomorrow's goal is to set up woodpecker CI on #codeberg, and use argoCD in a real cluster to pull the image from quay.

@zygoon these days I am mainly runnning #GNUstep based desktop software on #FreeBSD/#GhostBSD and try to stay away as far as possible from anything Red Hat has ever touched, such as Glib, Gtk, Wayland, systemd, D-Bus, Portals, polkit, PipeWire, and anything in between.

If you look at this picture and say "I want this", consider contributing to this #GNUstep based open source project. https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop/

Nouvelle version du Bureau Agnostep pour les 35 ans de GNUstep https://linuxfr.org/news/nouvelle-version-du-bureau-agnostep-pour-les-35-ans-de-gnustep #GNUstep #gnustep

I added an article to gnustep-developer on IMP caching. I don't think it's necessarily something people need to do any more, but in code where you do it, you're probably breaking your build on macOS. https://gnustep-developer.com/articles/imp-caching/

#gnustep

Just noticed #GhostBSD now offers a Gershwin Community Preview flavor

https://www.ghostbsd.org/download

Gershwin Desktop is yet another attempt a #GNUstep desktop environment (showed up about 10 months ago) which can be built for

• FreeBSD / GhostBSD
• Arch Linux / Artix
• Debian / Devuan

https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

https://insuko.net/window-maker-live-12-12-%E3%82%92%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%81%97%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F

#wmlive #debian #gnustep

Looks like #wmlive has become somewhat popular in Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoby5qn55K0

#debian #linux #gnustep

I've been collecting notes (and my LLMs have too) on things I and the LLMs got wrong while doing some #gnustep work, and started publishing them to a new website: https://gnustep-developer.com. Includes llms.txt so the models can find the info again.