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10 votes
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First Librem 5 phone rolled out!
25 votes -
Epic Games supports Blender Foundation with $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant
32 votes -
Mobilizon reaches its funding goal with 10 days left
6 votes -
Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
7 votes -
aerc: Email Client for the Terminal
17 votes -
South Korea's government will switch to Linux over cost concerns
9 votes -
/e/ (formerly eelo) started selling phones today
13 votes -
Librem announces Librem One
18 votes -
OpenBSD 6.5 Is Released!
11 votes -
Redox OS 0.5.0
14 votes -
Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 votes -
Announcing the release of sway 1.0
16 votes -
Why OpenBSD Rocks
16 votes -
Regarding EGLStreams support in KWin
6 votes -
Riot.im: The Big 1.0
32 votes -
Oil: Success With the Interactive Shell
9 votes -
Switching from Linux to BSD: What do you miss?
There seems to be a trend lately of people switching over to BSD operating systems. Having read some blog posts on the matter and now given the recent system-d controversy, I'm genuinely curious...
There seems to be a trend lately of people switching over to BSD operating systems. Having read some blog posts on the matter and now given the recent system-d controversy, I'm genuinely curious to give FreeBSD or OpenBSD a go as my main OS.
For those who have switched over to BSD, what are some problems you've encountered and/or what are some things you miss?
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sr.ht is now sourcehut
17 votes -
Wine 4.0 Released
28 votes -
Bash-5.0 release available
17 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
19 votes -
Six Years of Space Nerds In Space – a video overview of a co-op StarTrek-like space sim game
4 votes -
Haiku OS R1/beta1 has been released — first non-nightly release since 2012
33 votes -
Has anyone used FreeCAD, Kicad and other ffos software?
The recent post on foss software got me thinking about viable foss alternatives, particularly non programming related. I just came across FreeCAD and am wondering if anyone has experience using...
The recent post on foss software got me thinking about viable foss alternatives, particularly non programming related.
I just came across FreeCAD and am wondering if anyone has experience using it, how it compares to Solidworks, Autodesk, Rhino or Catia?
I was shown Kicad at uni by a ladtech and was very impressed, way easier and more flexible then whatever microchip software they where teaching.
On a broader level what other professional ffos alternatives do you guys know about?
Is anyone using this stuff on a professional level or is it more hobby at the moment?
15 votes -
Thoughts on Free And Open Source Software
What do y'all think of FOSS software. How do y'all think more people will care about FOSS software and make the switch? Is it lack of information? Lack of caring? Lack of convenience?
31 votes -
What if app stores were federated?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the future of software and where native apps and the web will reconcile and I had the idea that what if "the next OS" had a OSS federated app store that...
I've been thinking a lot lately about the future of software and where native apps and the web will reconcile and I had the idea that what if "the next OS" had a OSS federated app store that people and organizations could host themselves, but the system still used the app store model that pull app/program listings from all the installations online? This could apply to mobile or desktop computing, or even any of the other platforms (see windows store system compatibility).
11 votes -
GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the state of Washington
15 votes -
Are there any visually appealing FOSS dialers for Android?
I found a few but they all look somewhat ugly in my opinion. I want to use a privacy oriented dialer but I really don't want to trade aesthetics for that.
8 votes -
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here
14 votes -
Getting started with qemu
9 votes -
/e/ first beta soon to be released
9 votes -
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014)
7 votes -
castling.club: play Chess via Mastodon (ActivityPub)
10 votes -
The Commons Clause will destroy open source
6 votes -
Los Angeles County gets state approval of new vote-counting system using open source software
5 votes -
Ghost 2.0 released
8 votes -
FOSS Alternatives
I got into FOSS recently and have been researching replacements for common proprietary software. Along with reddit (r/privacytoolsio) I have used alternativeto.net & privacytools.io. I would love...
I got into FOSS recently and have been researching replacements for common proprietary software. Along with reddit (r/privacytoolsio) I have used alternativeto.net & privacytools.io. I would love to make a list on Tildes for anyone that is also interested in this stuff.
Telegram -> Signal: signal.org
Discord -> Riot: riot.im (surprised this isn't as popular)
Google -> FindX: findx.com (there are many others but this is my favorite)
.................searX: searx.me
Reddit -> Tildes: tildes.net (obviously)
Chrome -> Firefox: mozilla.org (there are many others but this is my favorite)
LastPass -> Bitwarden: bitwarden.com (my personal favorite but there are others)
Photoshop -> GIMP: gimp.org
FireAlpaca -> Krita: krita.org
Microsoft Office -> LibreOffice: libreoffice.org
Windows Media Player -> VLC: videolan.org (Best FOSS ever)
uTorrent -> qBittorrent: qbittorrent.org
...................Deluge: deluge-torrent.org
Adobe Illustrator -> Inkscape: inkscape.org
Adobe Premiere Pro -> Blender: blender.org (mainly 3d stuff but can be used as animation)
Windows -> Linux: ubuntu.com (ubuntu is just one distro, there are so many)
Adobe Audition -> Audacity: audacityteam.org
..............................Ardour: ardour.org
Github -> Gitlab: gitlab.com
Trello -> Taiga: taiga.io
Fraps -> OBS: obsproject.com
Gmail -> ProtonMail: protonmail.com
Youtube Client -> NewPipe: newpipe.schabi.org
Outlook -> Thunderbird: thunderbird.net
Adblock+ -> uBlock Origin: (you can get it in your browser's addon store)
Unity -> Godot Engine: godotengine.org
USD -> Bitcoin: bitcoin.org (I would suggest an altcoin like Stellar though)
... anything else? any programs you don't know a FOSS alternative to that I can find?66 votes -
The Tragedy of systemd
13 votes -
Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Musk announces plan to open source part of Tesla's vehicle security software
@elonmusk: Great Q&A @defcon last night. Thanks for helping make Tesla & SpaceX more secure! Planning to open-source Tesla vehicle security software for free use by other car makers. Extremely important to a safe self-driving future for all.
7 votes -
DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
17 votes -
Michael MacInnis: Oh a new Unix shell - BSDCan 2018
6 votes -
Battle of the Schedulers: Linux's CFS vs FreeBSD's ULE
7 votes -
Microsoft forces Krita to change their Windows Store listing
24 votes -
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs
28 votes -
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
16 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2
7 votes