BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, December 9, 2025) — The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) announced today the recipients of the 2024
Free Software Awards, which are given annually by the FSF to groups
and individuals in the free software community w…
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, December 9, 2025) — The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) announced today the recipients of the 2024
Free Software Awards, which are given annually by the FSF to groups
and individuals in the free software communi…
At the 10th anniversary of my involvement in EmacsConf, I’m finally
giving my first ever talk at the conference, for EmacsConf 2025. 🙂
In this talk, I give a quick introduction to Gnus and show a basic
configuration for reading and writing email wit…
I am pleased to announce the availability of Planet
Guix, an Atom and RSS aggregator covering all
things Guix. You can browse posts on the website or use your favourite feed
reader to subscribe to the aggregate feed.Planet Guix already has subscripti…
I am delighted to announce a new release of GNU a2ps, the “anything to
PostScript” system.
This is to announce a2ps-4.15.8, a stable release. This release fixes a
buffer overflow, and a failure to build on some older systems.
There have been 13 …
Read Moreby George Whittaker
For years, Windows users frustrated with constant changes, aggressive updates, and growing system bloat have flirted with switching to Linux. But 2025 marks a notic…
Read More Hello and welcome to my November free software activities report.
I’ve been working on a number of things throughout this month but
they’re not quite ready for reporting yet, so this month’s report
will be quite short.
GNU & FSF
EmacsConf: I rec…
Read More I am very happy to announce that, after almost a year in the
works, today the Algol 68
front-end has been merged in GCC proper in its development
trunk branch. This means that we are no longer off-tree, and
that GCC 16 will …
The debian-with-guix-container project build and publish container images of Debian GNU/Linux stable with GNU Guix installed.
The images are like normal Debian stable containers but have the guix tool and a reasonable fresh guix pull.
Supported…
Read MoreThe 24th release of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is now available. See the full announcement for all the new features in this release and the many bugs that have been found and fixed: https://lists.gnu … -11/msg00001.html
Read MoreDisks, or GNOME Disk Utility, is the Ubuntu default disk storage management application. Its purpose is to manage everything about hard disk drives and other storage on your Ubuntu computer — including optical discs (CDs, DVDs) and USB flash drives. T…
Read MoreThe initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…
Read MoreDoes your Linux box take forever to boot? The command you’re looking for is systemd-analyze blame
Read MoreGNU Parallel 20251122 (‘Mamdani’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
ainda não inventaram palavras capazes de expressar minha gratidão aos desenvolvedores do GNU Parallel
— @nue…
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Today I submitted the version 6 of the patch series for the Algol 68
GCC Front-End:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-November/701589.html
Since last submission we have added a modules system based on the
Modules and S…
This is the third compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials, which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In the last compilation, we talked about useful things like Telegram and Synaptic, among others. In this episode, we…
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Read MoreGNUnet 0.26.1
This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.26.0.
It fixes some regressions and minor bugs.
Links
Source:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.26.1.tar.gz
(
http…
Read MoreThe Debian Libre Live Images allows you to run and install Debian GNU/Linux without non-free software.
The general goal is to provide a way to use Debian without reliance on non-free software, to the extent possible within the Debian project.
O…
Read MoreGNUnet 0.26.0 released
We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.26.0.
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and
privacy-preserving distributed applications.
Our goal is to rep…