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D.eSystem 6.1.4 is the firts version of D.eSystem which can read FAT32 text files. D.eSystem 6.1.4 also got a few bugfixes. (D.eSystem is runing on real hardware on the thumbnail)

This appears to be a minor bugfix release for the recent 12.0 major.

Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement.

Shotwell 0.33 open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment has been officially released today after many years of work as the first version ported to GTK4.

#D.eSystem 6.1.2 is the first D.eSystem which intdroduces first FAT32 support (it can find a file in the directory). It also redesigns the desktop with D.UI 12 and it brings back Legacy BIOS fallback. D.eSystem 6.1.2: https://github.com/D-electronics-scratch/all_D.eSystem_versions/releases/tag/v.6.1.2

This is a little bit of a wall of text but I hope it will be a nice sample for such a setup.

https://github.com/paulknysh/raggy

D.eSystem 6.1.1 fixed some bugs from D.eSystem 6.1.0 and it removed the Legacy BIOS fallback because future features will require the UEFI firmware. D.eSystem 6.1.1: https://github.com/D-electronics-scratch/all_D.eSystem_versions/releases/tag/v.6.1.1

https://github.com/paulknysh/raggy

Why jump from 10.11.11 directly to 12.0? -> Blog Post

Italo Vignoli of The Document Foundation explains why digital sovereignty starts with file formats — and why ODF is superior to proprietary formats.

This year I decided to switch my “default license” to EUPL-1.2. This is an OSI-approved free software license created and published by the European Union. And it is quite a divergence from the licenses I’ve used in the past. EUPL is a strong copyleft license that closes the “SaaS loophole” by requiring reciprocal licensing regardless of how the software is distributed.

via I changed my license | Henri Bergius

A public reference index of web crawlers and AI user agents. One page per crawler: what it is for, which robots.txt token it actually obeys, whether the operator publishes IP ranges you can verify it against, and the field most lists leave out — what you lose if you block it.

Asahi Linux is the project to add support for modern Apple ARM chips into the Linux kernel. This progress report announces that they’ve done the finishing touches for M3 support/enablement (like adding it to their installer). This adds on to their existing support for M1 and M2 chips.

I ( @alpin@lemmy.ml ) started writing a small piece of software some time ago to easily host files on a local server and share them with any device equipped with a web browser or an HTTP client (curl, wget, etc.). I’ve been using it myself at home and I keep slowly working on it in my free time to add features and fix the problems that I find.

This is a post about the whole path it took me to get from the old days of Google Music to Navidrome, and some views on the topic. Maybe this is something that interest you, in this case give a read.

Placemark is a tool that lets you view, create, and edit geospatial (map) data. I ran it as a company for a while and open sourced it when I shut down that company.

So this issue is brought up by me over 2.5 years ago, and nothing changed since then. The issue is now the in top 3 highest upvoted Issue on this repo. At what point is it still open source, if it downloads without your permission a proprietary component that is used to run the software?

I am curently developing a file system for my OS (D.eSystem) with the version 6.1.0.5. The file system is now not working,but it is in development, you can find D.eSystem 6.1.0.5 here: https://github.com/D-electronics-scratch/all_D.eSystem_versions/releases/tag/v.6.1.0.5

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From the article: “This release also introduces Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models.

TDF and Collabora have been at odds since April, when TDF’s Membership Committee kicked out every Collabora staffer and partner in one move, with more than 30 people dropped.

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The Document Foundation today announced the availability of LibreOffice 26.8, the new major release of the free and open source office suite, for Windows, macOS and Linux. Development began in December 2025, and the release consolidates the work of 206 contributors, of whom 155 are volunteers.

Hi,

Ardour 9.8 has been released as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

nitter.net is currently replaced with a message about the C&D until zedeus (lead dev) gets legal advice on how to proceed. Xcancel.com is ok for now (or at least until an API break). EDIT: xcancel.com was also C&D-ed

For those unfamiliar, Zotero is a “free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research”. It’s very popular in university / academia since it makes it trivial to manage in-text citations and works cited / references sections. There are browser extensions and plugins for popular document processing software (including Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, etc).

Partying like it’s 1977!

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Hey everyone,

My area has been plagued with forest fires over the past few months. I was looking at tools to contribute air quality reading.

Eclipse SUMO is a free and open source traffic simulation suite, highly portable, microscopic and continuous traffic simulation package designed to handle large networks.

The ultimate gathering for the world’s best office suite.

TL;DR: The growth of ListenBrainz has caught up with us, and our limited team is working on replacing central parts of our infrastructure. In the meantime, many features are unstable