Computers in 2026, have little point. We cannot write #FreeSoftware for them, the @fsf actively hinders the #GNU project with dead beat projects like LibrePhoolery, refuses to keep basic infra structure running, blocks #GNU maintainers from talking about these issues. The FSF president @iank prefers to sit in silence and not do anything.
We have pointless garbage like VomitBots.
Maybe 2026 is when I stop enjoying a craft that I’ve been in love with for 40 years.
@petealexharris but all that #LLM generated code has to be considered #GNU#GPL, because GNU General Public License code was certainly included in all the training sets. Clause 5(c) applies.
Anyone else affected by the constant #gnu dot org outtages? I wanted to sign up to Savannah but they are not sending the sign-up mail. Half the time I try to open a page on their server it does not load. It has been like this for at least a week.
What is there to do? Just create a permanent fork for the GNU projects I want to fix on my Codeberg?
I feel the recognition of the GNU project has remained limited to the core utilities rather than a complete operating system.
I think #FSF should think about shipping a GNU/Linux-Libre distribution to spread the ethical ideas of software freedom and demonstrate the practicality of the ethics. @iank
Or can we consider / declare #Guix as our official GNU operating system?
Happy Gnu Year! Here is to a new year of enjoying software that respects your freedom to use it as you wish, study it to learn how it works, modify it to better meet your needs, and share it with others! #GNU#FreeAndLibreOpenSourceSoftware#fsf
@p @graf@poa.st it's not quite true, for quite a long time. For example, Systemd is not made by the GNU team. There's a ton of other examples. GNOME, for example, is no longer a part of GNU since 2019. KDE was never a GNU project.
So, Linux is an OS in itself. Yes, it does use the work of the GNU team, but it's much bigger than GNU.
One of the best things the GNU project did was not make systemd.
Whatever operating system you are running bears, I suspect, no resemblance to anything I'm doing.
> So, Linux is an OS in itself.
Linux is a kernel. The extent to which you are willing to consider a kernel an operating system or to use the name of the kernel metonymically for the operating system is your prerogative. The map is not the territory; I don't have anything to say about your personal map, except that I hope you made a useful one.
> Yes, it does use the work of the GNU team, but it's much bigger than GNU.
The extent to which GNU software is important to the Linux ecosystem is beyond the scope of automated copypasta that accompanies the client software; as far as I know, nothing new has been said on the topic since the 1990s.
rms is insistent about naming. That's the joke. That's it.
The actual content of the post is the "ssh bbs@fsebugoutzone.org" part, a message to graf, and the source tarball. I'd rather discuss the software than argue about who gets to define what.
Amigues recuerden el Software libre es Libre Su código, pero esto no significa que sea gratuito. Hay muchas organizaciones, distribuciones, desarrolladores, creadores de contenido, que necesitan de nuestra ayuda para seguir manteniendo sus servicios. Un pequeño aporte es una manera de valor su esfuerzo y trabajo.😉 Yo no voy a decirte a quien donar, eso depende de ti 🫵
I've written quite a bit over the past 11 months about flipping the table on my personal computing. All very unexpected but what a relief to have done it. And also very satisfying to know that my computing now fits my personal ethics in a way that it did not before.