Collaborate Disseminate
“Are you tired of your existing compilers? Want fresh new language features and better optimizations?” asks an announcement on the GCC mailing list touting “a major release containing substantial new functionality not available in GCC 7.x or previous G… Continue reading GCC 8.1 Compiler Introduces Initial C++20 Support
Each year the Fee Software award goes to someone making “a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.” This year’s winner is a former executive of the GNOME Foun… Continue reading The Prestigious Free Software Award Goes to Karen Sandler
TechRepublic got different answers about Microsoft’s new enthusiasm for Linux from Canonical’s founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, and from Richard Stallman. Stallman “believes that Microsoft’s decision to build a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) amoun… Continue reading Richard Stallman vs. Canonical’s CEO: ‘Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?’
This week the Free Software Foundation awarded its coveted ‘Respects Your Freedom’ certification to 15 products — more than doubling the number of certified products (from 12 to 27) since the program began in 2012.
An anonymous reader writes:
The non-… Continue reading 15 Devices (Including 6 Laptops) Awarded FSF’s ‘Respects Your Freedom’ Certification
It would be difficult to imagine the technological enhancements to the world we live in today without open-source software. You will find it somewhere in most of your consumer electronics, in the unseen data centres of the cloud, in machines, gadgets, and tools, in fact almost anywhere a microcomputer is used in a product. The willingness of software developers to share their work freely under licences that guarantee its continued free propagation has been as large a contributor to the success of our tech economy as any hardware innovation.
Though open-source licences have been with us for decades now, there …read more
Continue reading The GNU GPL Is An Enforceable Contract At Last
After our article about Richard Stallman’s new video interview, Slashdot reader silverjacket shared this recent profile from Psychology Today that describes Richard Stallman’s quest “to save us from a web of spyware — and from ourselves.”
By using pr… Continue reading How <em>Psychology Today</em> Sees Richard Stallman
Many Slashdot readers know Bryan Lunduke as the creator of the humorous “Linux Sucks” presentations at the annual Southern California Linux Exposition. He’s now also a member of the OpenSUSE project board and an all-around open source guy. (In Septembe… Continue reading Richard Stallman Interviewed By Bryan Lunduke
KDE has announced the release and general availability of the KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems. While it only took a few months to develop and isn’t a long-term supported (LTS) version like KDE Plasma 5.8, the update d… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.9 Released
As an Apple user, I’ve become somewhat disillusioned over the past few years. Maybe it’s the spirit of Steve Jobs slowly vanishing from the company, or that Apple seems to care more about keeping up with expensive trends lately rather than setting them, or the nagging notion Apple doesn’t have my best interests as a user in mind.
Whatever it is, I was passively on the hunt for a new laptop with the pipe dream that one day I could junk my Apple for something even better. One that could run a *nix operating system of some sort, be made …read more
Continue reading Harrowing Story of Installing Libreboot on ThinkPad
“Debian developer Cyril Brulebois was pleased to announce this past weekend the release and immediate availability of the eighth Alpha development snapshot of the Debian GNU/Linux 9 ‘Stretch’ installer,” reports Softpedia. An anonymous reader quotes th… Continue reading Debian GNU/Linux 9 ‘Stretch’ Installer Gets GNU Screen, Linux Kernel 4.7 Support