Automating LibreOffice with macros

In addition to its comprehensive tool set, LibreOffice packs a built-in Basic-like scripting language that can be used to automate repetitive tasks and extend the suite’s default functionality.

Optimizing data organization on disk

Defragfs optimizes files on a system, allowing videos to load faster and large archives to open in the blink of an eye.

health @ Savannah: GNU Health HIS server 5.0.4 patchset bundle released

Dear community

The patchset 5.0.4 of GNU Health Information System is out!

This is a small patch related to the calendar package.

If you use the vanilla / standard installation, you can update the server and the dependencies from the gnuhe…

What’s New in KDE Gear 25.12 — A Major Update for KDE Software

by George Whittaker

Introduction

The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancemen…

mailutils @ Savannah: GNU mailutils version 3.21

GNU mailutils version 3.21 is available for download.  Short list of changes in this version follows. Refer to its NEWS file for a detailed discussion.

Optionally create intermediate directories when creating mailboxes.

New configuration sectio…

radius @ Savannah: GNU radius version 1.7

Version 1.7 of GNU radius is available for download.

This is a maintenance release.

Noteworthy changes:

Support for Guile 3.x.

Code cleanup.

Improved testsuite.

Improved documentation.

Various bugfixes.

Evince – Intro to the Default Ubuntu Document Viewer Application

Document Viewer or Evince is the default PDF reader application on Ubuntu. It originates from GNOME and its real name is evince. As its name suggests, Document Viewer’s purpose is to display various digital documents and electronic books, like PDF and …

Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End-of-Life: Time to Retire a Workhorse

by George Whittaker

One of the most widely deployed Linux kernels has officially reached the end of its lifecycle. The maintainers of the Linux kernel have confirmed that Linux 5.4, on…

Free Software Awards winners announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

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…

FSF News: Free Software Awards winners announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

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…

GNU Guix: A Planet for Guix

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…

a2ps @ Savannah: a2ps 4.15.8 released [stable]

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 …

Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam

by 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…

Amin Bandali: Free software activities in November 2025

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…

Jose E. Marchesi: Algol 68 Front-End merged in GCC

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 …

Simon Josefsson: Container Images for Debian with Guix

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…

gnuastro @ Savannah: Gnuastro 0.24 released

The 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

Disks – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Disk Utility Application

Disks, 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…

www @ Savannah: Malware in Proprietary Software – Latest Additions

The 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…

Gary Benson: Slow boot?

Does your Linux box take forever to boot? The command you’re looking for is systemd-analyze blame