Collaborate Disseminate
Longtime Slashdot reader slack_justyb writes: The Fast Light Toolkit released version 1.4.0 of the venerable, though sometimes looking a bit dated, toolkit from the ’90s. New in this version are better CMake support, HiDPI support, and initial support … Continue reading FLTK 1.4 Released
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 “and we will end our thirties on a high note!” they announced this week:
We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we’re not there yet. Unti… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Plans Year of Celebrations For Its 40th Anniversary
Libreboot is a distribution of coreboot “aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers.”
So then what exactly is GNU Boot? Its home page explains…
In November 2022, Libreboot began to include non-libre code. We have… Continue reading ‘100% Free’ GNU Boot Discovers They’ve Been Shipping Non-Free Code – Again
“Can you believe that we’ve been demanding user freedom since 1985?” asks a new blog post at FSF.org:
Today, we’re celebrating our thirty-ninth anniversary, the “lace year,” which represents the intertwined nature and strength of our relationship wit… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Celebrates 39th Anniversary
A researcher claims to have found a decade-old vulnerability rated 9.9 that affects all GNU/Linux systems, allowing attackers… Continue reading Old Vulnerability Rated 9.9 Impacts All GNU/Linux Systems, Researcher Claims
Data manipulation is at the heart of computation, and a system is said to be Turing-complete if it can be configured to manipulate data in a way that makes implementing …read more Continue reading Proof that find + mkdir are Turing-Complete
“As free software activists, we ought to take the opportunity to look at the situation and see how things could have gone differently,” writes FSF campaigns manager Greg Farough:
Let’s be clear: in principle, there is nothing ethically wrong with auto… Continue reading After Crowdstrike Outage, FSF Argues There’s a Better Way Forward
It’s “the conference about the joy of Emacs and Emacs Lisp.” Started in 2013, the volunteer-run EmacsConf accepted 44 talks for this year — and Day Two has just started streaming online now.
Sunday kicks off with a talk counting on how the “hype… Continue reading The Annual Emacs Conference ‘EmacsConf’ is Livestreaming Now
The Free Sofware Foundation issued a clarifying blog post this week, saying the organization is “pleased when people use GNU licenses to distribute and license software.”
But “we condemn the use of unauthorized, confusing derivatives of the licenses… Continue reading The FSF Condemns Unauthorized Derivatives of GNU Licenses
Devin Ulibarri, the Free Software Foundation’s outreach and communications coordinator, writes up an event he describes as meeting with some old and new friends:
On Sunday, October 1, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) hosted a hackday to celebrate the… Continue reading GNU’s 40th Anniversary: the FSF’s Meeting with Old and New Friends