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There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
Heute in zwei Wochen haben wir bei der AG #OpenSource bei @D64eV niemand geringeren als @leonido zu Gast und unterhalten uns mit ihm über das Thema "OpenSource und Gemeinnützigkeit". Darauf freue ich mich sehr.
Hier alle Details zu unserem #OpenSourceTalk inkl. Link zur Veranstaltung:
Talk mit Prof. Leonhard Dobusch über Open Source und Gemeinnützigkeit. Wir diskutieren staatliche Fördermaßnahmen für gemeinnützige Open-Source-Initiativen und deren gesellschaftlichen Nutzen. 1. Oktober 2025, 20:00-21:30 Uhr.
Unfortunately, I've mostly lost interest and motivation to work on Helvum, so the project has already been inactive for over a year. I am now marking...
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.0 and LibreOffice 25.8.1 were announced on August 20 and August 29 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for the option to load printer settings with document, sorting blocks of cells in Calc, hyphenation,…
Hello. Adrian here. Over the past few months, off and on, I’ve been thinking about version control. As a company that writes lots of software, it’s a pretty central tool for managing source code...
We've got the latest updates on our Android and upcoming iOS apps! Take a sneak peak at the new Android account drawer, iOS account setup and upcoming monthly release schedule. Also, we explain why recent updates affected read/unread message readability and how we're fixing it in the short AND long term.
What did we do in 2024, to support the @libreoffice and Document Liberation projects? We've been posting on our blog, and now the final version of our Annual Report is available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
The Annual Report of The Document Foundation describes the foundation’s activities and projects, especially in regard to LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project.
Hey @protonprivacy it would be nice if you could update your website. Given that both of us fight for #privacy and #opensource, we must not use the same marketing tactics like Big Techs do.
After a short hiatus, State of the Thunder is back! This time, in addition to tackling community questions, we're also responding to the top 20-ish requested features from Mozilla Connect. Get the latest news on Sync, translations, and more!
As it happens, we still use CVS in our operating system project (there are reasons for doing this, but migration to git would indeed make sense).
While working on our project, we occasionally have to do a full checkout of the whole codebase, which is several gigabytes. Over time, this operation has gotten very, very, very slow - I mean "2+ hours to perform a checkout" slow.
This was getting quite ridiculous. Even though it's CVS, it shouldn't crawl like this. A quick build of CVS with debug symbols and sampling the "cvs server" process with Linux perf showed something peculiar: The code was spending the majority of the time inside one function.
So what is this get_memnode() function? Turns out this is a support function from Gnulib that enables page-aligned memory allocations. (NOTE: I have no clue why CVS thinks doing page-aligned allocations is beneficial here - but here we are.)
The code in question has support for three different backend allocators: 1. mmap 2. posix_memalign 3. malloc
Sounds nice, except that both 1 and 3 use a linked list to track the allocations. The get_memnode() function is called when deallocating memory to find out the original pointer to pass to the backend deallocation function: The node search code appears as:
for (c = *p_next; c != NULL; p_next = &c->next, c = c->next) if (c->aligned_ptr == aligned_ptr) break;
The get_memnode() function is called from pagealign_free():
This is an O(n) operation. CVS must be allocating a huge number of small allocations, which will result in it spending most of the CPU time in get_memnode() trying to find the node to remove from the list.
Why should we care? This is "just CVS" after all. Well, Gnulib is used in a lot of projects, not just CVS. While pagealign_alloc() is likely not the most used functionality, it can still end up hurting performance in many places.
The obvious easy fix is to prefer the posix_memalign method over the other options (I quickly made this happen for my personal CVS build by adding tactical #undef HAVE_MMAP). Even better, the list code should be replaced with something more sensible. In fact, there is no need to store the original pointer in a list; a better solution is to allocate enough memory and store the pointer before the calculated aligned pointer. This way, the original pointer can be fetched from the negative offset of the pointer passed to pagealign_free(). This way, it will be O(1).
I tried to report this to the Gnulib project, but I have trouble reaching gnu.org services currently. I'll be sure to do that once things recover.
Fingerprint reader functionality under #Linux sucks.
1. Every few reboots/updates/whatever-triggers it, the fingerprint functionality GETS DISABLED all by itself. The bug is there in BOTH Ubuntu and Arch Linux ( #gnome ).
2. GDM won't let me choose between pass & fingerprint reading. This has repercussions for gnome's keyring.
3. Because the keyring is not unlocked, launching things like Chrome requires you to type a password! Again!
LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to volunteers around the world! And there are translations in many languages too. The Czech community just finished translating the LibreOffice Calc Guide 25.2: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech translation of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 25.2 is now available, thanks to the endless efforts of our team. It was translated by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and me.
Supposed to be receiving my #mnt #pocket today. excited is an understatement. Looking forward to checking out a piece of fully open, modular hardware. #Linux #Opensource #hardware
At the latest edition of Rust in Paris, Benjamin Bouvier @bnjbvr explained why Rust compile times can be slow — and how to speed them up without sacrificing quality.
*In Rust in Paris 2025* , Benjamin Bouvier, *Rust hacker at Element* , tackled one of the few pain points of Rust: its *infamous compile times* .⏱ Why does R...
We have some new LibreOffice Expert magazines from @linuxmagazine to give away! We want to get them to schools, libraries and local communities, especially in remote places where internet access isn't easily available: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
A few weeks ago, Linux New Media released an updated version of its “LibreOffice Expert” magazine, which contains tutorials, tips and tricks about the office suite.
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.
I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.
For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.
For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.
However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, had promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:
The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.
The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.
There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:
I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.
I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.
Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.
But wait — it gets better!
Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.
Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!
Hello world! 👋 Greetings from the #LibreOffice Conference in Budapest. Of course, this is just one part of the wider LibreOffice community that makes the software – consisting of hundreds of people around the world. Join them! #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
I've had Fedora as my main operating system for 4 years and couldn't be happier!
I only use Windows at work out of necessity, but at home it's 100% free software. LibreOffice has completely replaced Microsoft's Office suite, and honestly, I don't miss it at all.
Who else here made this transition? What was your experience like?
IzzyOnDroid is an Android store for Free & Open Source Software. The apps are free (as in „free beer“ and as in „free speech“) and Open Source.
Builds for IzzyOnDroid are directly from developers and signed by developers. This enables very fast publishing (whereas F-Droid re-builds apps from source).
Day 2 of the #LibreOffice Conference 2025 begins! Join us in-person in Budapest – or check the conference website for the schedule and chat (where we'll post live stream links, where possible): conference.libreoffice.org/202… #foss #OpenSource
More and more countries are taking back control of their IT! At the #LibreOffice Conference, we hear how the Austrian Military is switching. Oh, and there's cool conference swag from the organisers too... conference.libreoffice.org/202… #foss #OpenSource
Very happy with Fruitstand. It's clearly more beta, but I'll just keep contributing small patches here and there. It's actually #OpenSource, actually has local plugins and is privacy-respecting (all unlike TRMNL) and from what I can tell the dev is chill and not a bigot :)
