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The State of FOSS in India
submitted 7 days ago by diogenesjunior from state-of-foss.in
At Home (and On Campus) with EFF - Scheduled to be LIVE Jan 14, 2021
submitted 7 days ago by JasonCarswell from self.FLOSS
Can't believe I have to write that... The Quantum Ad-List is free.
submitted 26 days ago by The_Quantum_Alpha from i.imgur.com
For the love of open source: Why developers work on Linux and open-source software
submitted 1 month ago by diogenesjunior from zdnet.com
Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs
submitted 1 month ago by diogenesjunior from skywatertechnology.com
Synapse 1.21.1 released | Matrix.org
submitted 3 months ago by Pis-dur from matrix.org
Is Self-Sufficiency Possible? - Questions For Corbett (33:12) ~ corbettreport
submitted 3 months ago by JasonCarswell from youtube.com
Calibre 5.0 released. The powerful e-book manager has moved to Python 3, has dark mode support and more.
submitted 3 months ago by Pis-dur from calibre-ebook.com
Frictional Games open sources Amnesia: The Dark Descent code under GPL v3:
submitted 3 months ago by Pis-dur from frictionalgames.com
The Newsboat RSS Feedreader 2.21 released
submitted 3 months ago by Pis-dur from newsboat.org
Mozilla announced the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot program: Firefox Send and Firefox Notes.
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from blog.mozilla.org
Spritely Goblins v0.7 released - a transactional, distributed actor model environment
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from dustycloud.org
weeklyOSM 529
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from weeklyosm.eu
Xfce 4.16pre1 released! - the first development release leading up to Xfce 4.16. It comes with a boatload of new features and improvements.
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from andreldm.com
Mycroft AI Making Development Syncs Public
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from mycroft.ai
This week in KDE: Akademy makes the magic happen
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from pointieststick.com
GNU remotecontrol - News: New Google Nest Thermostat passes through FCC [Savannah]
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from savannah.gnu.org
The number of Google searches in all languages for privacy-focused Gmail alternatives (e.g., “private email” or “encrypted email”) increased 39 percent worldwide between May 2019 and April 2020.
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from protonmail.com
PeerTube 2.4 is out!
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from joinpeertube.org
Ardour 6.3 is released
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from discourse.ardour.org
OpenPGP in Thunderbird 78
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from blog.thunderbird.net
Free Software Awards: Recognize those who advance our freedom by October 28th — Free Software Foundation
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from fsf.org
Spain’s First Open Source Satellite
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from hackaday.com
GNU FreeIPMI - News: FreeIPMI 1.6.6 Released [Savannah]
Peertube·Social briefly, P·S at 100 000 views.
submitted 4 months ago by Pis-dur from write.tedomum.net
Snap
submitted 5 months ago by dissent from i.imgur.com
Jitsi - open-source alternative to Zoom video conferencing
submitted 6 months ago by JasonCarswell from self.FLOSS
Linux Lite 5.0 Released With UEFI Support & Other Major Improvements
submitted 6 months ago by dissent from itsfoss.com
FarmBot: open source backyard robot for a fully automated garden (31:43) ~ Kirsten Dirksen, 2016-09-25
submitted 8 months ago by JasonCarswell from youtube.com
Performance-Focused LibreOffice 6.4 is Available for Download | The Document Foundation Blog
submitted 11 months ago by DeWhoDeWho from blog.documentfoundation.org
[Repost] FSFE welcomes CDU decision to make Free Software mandatory
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from fsfe.org
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
submitted 1 year ago by Mnemonic from theregister.co.uk
GNOME files defense against patent troll
submitted 1 year ago by Mnemonic from gnome.org
How to support open-source software and stay sane
submitted 1 year ago by Mnemonic from nature.com
25th Anniversary of FreeDOS -- with Jim Hall! ~ Bryan Lunduke (46:33)
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from youtube.com
Is Free Software digital Communism? ~ Bryan Lunduke (9:20)
CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' With Open Source Software - Slashdot
submitted 1 year ago by Mnemonic from news.slashdot.org
Is Telemetry evil... even in Open Source? ~ Bryan Lunduke
What software thingy would I do with a billion dollars? ~ Bryan Lunduke
Should macOS and iOS be Open Source? ~ Bryan Lunduke
How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control
submitted 1 year ago by happysmash27 from boingboing.net
Does going Full Stallman isolate a person? ~ Bryan Lunduke
We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
submitted 1 year ago by Mnemonic from linuxjournal.com
Should strong A.I. source code be opened? ~ Bryan Lunduke
WireGuard - a FLOSS application and communication protocol that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques to create secure point-to-point connections in routed or bridged configurations, run as a module in the Linux kernel aiming to beat IPsec and OpenVPN tunneling protocol performances.
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is both free and open-source unlike proprietary software, and anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.
Gratis versus libre (no cost vs no restriction, or free stuff vs freedom)
Open source - a term for a product with permission to use its source code, design documents, or content, most commonly referring the model, where software or other products are released under a license. Originating with software, it has expanded to cover other open content and collaboration.
MiniWin | Open source embedded window manager - for small embedded systems with a touch screen.
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from miniwinwm.wixsite.com
Dystopian Hypothetical: Free Software outlawed. Join the resistance or keep family safe? ~ Bryan Lunduke
GNU Project - a free-software, mass-collaboration project, started by Richard Stallman in 1983, aiming to give users freedom and control over their computers and devices, by collaboratively developing and providing software based on freedom-rights.
14 Best Free And Open Source Software For Windows 10 Every User Must Know In 2018 ~ Aditya Tiwari, 2018-01-12 - [ The must-have fundamentals for FLOSS newbies. Nothing new or unique for experienced users. ]
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from fossbytes.com
Switching family members to Free Software and Linux? ~ Bryan Lunduke
Best Free Window Manager/Resizer/Arranger List - [ I don't know if any of these software are FLOSS, which is why I want to migrate to Mint, but meanwhile I need a descent Win7Manager, so recommendations welcome. ]
submitted 1 year ago by JasonCarswell from techsupportalert.com
Does Open Source take away Closed Source jobs? ~ Bryan Lunduke