News for developers! As a result of some awesome cross-project collaboration, Flathub now has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for you.

tl;dr app developers, ensure you’re using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and copyright notices are properly included; distros, ensure your OS images have been built with updated runtimes from Flathub.

docs.flathub.org/blog/enhanced…

#Flathub #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Enhanced License Compliance Tools for Flathub

tl;dr: Flathub has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for developers. Distros should rebuild OS images with updated runtimes from Flathub; app developers should ensure they're using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licenses and cop…

^{Cassidy James Blaede (docs.flathub.org)}

Great Intelligence2 episode with @pluralistic

open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…

I loved his call for #DigitalSovereignty. It is great how #FOSS provides countries to provide a viable alternative. Interoperability & being able to reverse engineer the products is key.

open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…

This would do so much for innovation, too. The whole focus on printer ink is such a great example, as is the nursing one. Monopolies are anti-capitalist & anti-innovation. Lots I hadn't considered for #privacy

Why Does It Feel Like Everything is Getting Worse? With Cory Doctorow

Intelligence Squared · Episode

^{Why Does It Feel Like Everything is Getting Worse? With Cory Doctorow (Spotify)}

(2/3) For those curious about the technical side: we are using #MkDocs to build the website inside #WoodpeckerCI on #Codeberg and push the resulting HTML to #Grebedoc.

We want to thank all the developers of these tools and we want to thank @Codeberg and @whitequark for the hosting of code and website.

As always in this #FOSS world: we build on the work of others to get much further much faster than we could have gone alone and we are so grateful for the FOSS community for making this possible!

"Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas."

As you might have come to expect and astute as ever, @pluralistic laying down the facts on American tech subservience.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/pos…

#tech #technology #FOSS #policy

The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.

Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.

#linux #music #production #studio #foss

A 🇩🇪 iniciou a sua transição para o software livre

"Os gabinetes governamentais de Schleswig-Holstein migraram do Microsoft Exchange e do Outlook para o Open Xchange e o @thunderbird ."

"A fase final envolve a migração do #Windows para uma distribuição #Linux ."

pplware.sapo.pt/linux/alemanha…

#OpenSource #Microsoft #outlook #software #SoftwareLibre #LibreOffice #win10 #Win11 #FOSS #FLOSS #Alemanha

Alemanha afasta-se da Microsoft com a ajuda de software livre

Poucos meses após ter anunciado que iria abandonar a Microsoft, a Alemanha iniciou a sua transição para o software livre

^{Pedro Simões (Pplware)}

When we say #OpenSource, we mean business. That's why ALL Tuta apps are published on @fdroidorg

While Google & Apple monitor all push notifications, your data is safe when choosing Tuta Mail. 🔒

➡️ Learn why Tuta Mail is the only email provider app on F-Droid: tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…

#FOSS #Fdroid #Android #deGoogle

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 are no longer receiving software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

Microsoft recommends migrating to a Microsoft 365 subscription.

LibreOffice supports the features that a majority of users need for free.

Website: libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

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#Microsoft #Office2016 #Office2019 #Office #LibreOffice #Privacy #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Encryption #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Literally me. 11 successful installations of Linux in my area so far, with zero complaints, and I will be doing a 12th soon.

#linux #operatingsystem #foss #opensource

Hello everyone!

I want to order some stickers. Do you know a website which has high resolution pictures, or svgs?

I want pictures for #FreeBSD, #DeltaChat, #WebXDC, #OpenVoiceOS, #Alpine, #Emacs, #CommonLisp, #SLIME and #Luanti(#Minetest).

The website I want to order from already has got stickers for other things I want.

Boosts appreciated.

#FOSS #sticker #stickers #BSD #opensource

Ich habe einen #Bot geschrieben, der jeden Sonntag ein zufällig ausgewähltes Muster der Mustersprache des #Commoning teilt: @mustersprache_bot

In der Sphäre der gemeinsamen Nutzung von Dingen und der von Freiwilligkeit geprägten gegenseitigen Hilfe tauchen immer wieder dieselben Herausforderungen auf. Diese Herausforderungen werden von den Commoning-Mustern adressiert. Dabei wurden die enthaltenen Lösungen nicht 'erfunden', sondern 'gefunden': Sie beschreiben die Essenz von gelingenden Lösungen, mit denen diese Herausforderung von den daran Beteiligten angegangen wurden.

Die 33 Muster sind das politische Vermächtnis der 2021 verunglückten Commons-Forscherin Silke #Helfrich. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn sich hier ein paar Menschen finden, die diese Muster gelegentlich teilen, damit die darin enthaltene Erfahrung im #Fediverse Verbreitung findet. Dankeschön! 🙏

#commons #peereconomy #p2p #foss #care #sharing #kommunalismus

find ich mega! Oft bekommt man ja als End-Nutzer nicht so mit, was und wieviel da so im Hintergrund passiert...

Ich finde @fdroidorg schon mega. Aber nachdem mir mal jemand empfohlen hat, das Repo hinzuzufügen, war ich zunächst skeptisch und hab keinen Mehrwert gesehen. Aber über die Zeit entdecke ich immer wieder neue coole Apps. Weil ich ein neugieriger Mensch bin, schaue ich immer nach den verfügbaren Quellen. Ganz oft gibts die aber nur bei dir im Repo.

Hab deinen Beitrag zwecks Unterstützung geteilt, vielleicht bringts ja was...

Kannst du niederschwellig erklären, was euer Repo sonst noch auszeichnet bzw. anders macht als andere Repos? Zum Beispiel auch, wie ihr Entwickler unterstützt und zu #foss motiviert?

Ich bin #konservativ

Seit Version 9 bin ich beim klassischen #ubuntu geblieben.

Gerade installiere ich auf meiner #Workstation Version 24.4 neu.

#Windows habe ich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt nicht mehr im Hause...

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #digitaleSelbstbestimmt

I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green

customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else

this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies

#FOSS #OpenSource #Philosophy #UserExperience #UX #Upstream #Downstream #DigitalOwnership

We’re launching our second donation campaign to raise 💲1 million to:
- Fund new features, like robust group calls on all platforms, a web version, advanced diagnostics, and better mobile performance
- Secure Jami’s long‑term independence and maintenance 🛠️.

🔗 Read our 2025 Manifesto to learn how you can help defend your freedom to communicate: jami.net/manifesto-2025/

#Manifesto2025 #Jami #FOSS #Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Decentralisation

Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to us

Never has humanity had more tools to speak, yet communicating freely has rarely been harder.

^{jami (Jami)}

Just applied for renewal of my GNOME Foundation membership. And realized it's been 10 years since I became a foundation member!

Time flies when having fun! 😎🔟

#GNOME #gnomefoundation #10years #Anniversary #foss #freedesktop

Help wanted, please!

If you have *first hand experience* of improving the diversity of a governance board of (currently all men) volunteers, I'd love to hear how you went about it, or resources which helped you, please.

What did you find helped make the role more attractive to a wider range of applicants to join?

(This is in the context of a Free software project, but broader contexts are welcome.)

#Diversity #inclusion #FOSS #FreeSoftware

Are you working on Free & Open Source technologies that benefit other people too? Consider to apply for funding in our open calls.

• You can ask for between 5k - 50k euro
• Anyone can apply: individuals, SMEs, institutions, collectives, etc.
• There is little administrative overhead: no reporting-the project is the proof of work. And the application form is simple & straightforward.
  The next deadline for the rolling open call is October 1
  nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250801-ca…
  #FOSS #NGI #NGI0 #fossfunding

My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.

After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today her PR was merged 🚀

github.com/fontforge/fontforge…

#FontForge #FOSS #opensource

Remove X11 and non-Cairo drawing backends by valadaptive · Pull Request #5612 · fontforge/fontforge

Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely. If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...

^GitHub

Itching to try GNOME 49 today? Developers and curious testers can try GNOME OS in a virtual machine or bare metal:

os.gnome.org/

Just remember that GNOME OS itself is considered pre-release software; bad things may happen if you use it in production. Happy testing!

#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux

GNOME OS Nightly

Try the latest and greatest GNOME software in a VM or on real hardware

^os.gnome.org