Notices tagged with gnu, page 3

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Thinks I hate from #GNU and a bit from #Unix/#X11:

- #Emacs Calc (core package) depending on nonfree (not
GPL compatible) Gnuplot for plots. They should rewrite
the output for GNU #Plotutils and enhance the second
to have 3D plot support.

https://spdx.org/licenses/gnuplot.html

Distributing Gnuplot forks as a patch
against the main one -mandatory- makes Gnuplot's
code unshareable with other projects, period.

- #Texinfo (official GNU documentation format)
depending on #Texlive where tons of stuff in the official
release it's nonfree. Again, that should be a core feature
for #texinfo, and not depend on #tex at all.

https://wiki.parabola.nu/TeXLive_freedom_verification

- #Xedit might look as a crude X11 text editor but it
supports vi command AND it has an embedded Lisp
interpreter (compatible with a bit of CL/core Elisp
code, enough to do Math). It's 2026 and still doesn't
support neither UTF8 nor Unicode fonts. Trying to
enforce them under Xaw3D (LD_PRELOAD) will crash XEdit.
That editor would have lots of support if it supported them.
It's far lighter than Emacs and with the bundled Lisp
you might do wonders.

Back to Groff/Troff.
At least under #Hyperbola GNU (and future #BSD) with #mandoc
and maybe by promoting groff they are pretty much safe
even to typeset formulae into diferent formats, you can
pretty much use Groff for Math paper drafts and then
use TexLive for standard, rigid academic layouts.

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#gnome was always been a #microsoft hidden attempt to destroy #GTK and
libre software in order to be a test base for its technologies (C#
it's the best case). GTK it's doomed. Forever. It's just a #Gnome/MS
backend today to test touch interfaces and semi-native #Javascript
desktop software, you are basically betatesting
modern #Microsoft software desktop with it.

#KDE/#Plasma it's just a test suite for #qt5/#qt6
in order to get professional developers for QT which is very propietarily
supported.

Now, the only true libre environment from these corporations left
could be #GNUStep, the *original* supposted-to-be
#GNU desktop environment, not GNOME.

It might look old, rusty, forgotten, sightly enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep
clone AKA #OSX's dad, but it can look a bit modern with some themes.

This is from the 2010's I think, so it's kinda 'retro' today,
but far better than the default NeXT theme from the 90's.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BertrandDekoninck/rik.theme/master/newscreen.png

A least you will be sure that no one would need to adapt it
for coporation purposes.

There's even an #Emacs GNUStep UI port for it, which is for sure the base
for all the Emacs out there for #MacOS.

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GNU Xaos turns 30! ❤️ :gnu:
https://xaos.app/30/
#fractals #Xaos #GNU