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28 May 2023 Unifont 15.0.04 is now available.  This is a minor release, and the final release to have TrueType fonts in its default build.  Future releases will only build their OpenType equivalents, although it will still be possible to build TrueType versions manually by invoking "make […]

$ apt-file find guestmount guestmount: /usr/bin/guestmount guestmount: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/guestmount guestmount: /usr/share/doc/guestmount/changelog.Debian.gz guestmount: /usr/share/doc/guestmount/copyright guestmount: /usr/share/man/ja/man1/guestmount.1.gz guestmount: […]

Good evening, hackers. Today's missive is more of a massive, in the sense that it's another presentation transcript-alike; these things always translate to many vertical pixels.In my defense, I hardly ever give a presentation twice, so not only do I miss out on the usual per-presentation cost […]

This is the latest installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works.

ADAV-Weimar (Afghan-German Doctors Association) and GNU Solidario have formalized a agreement to implement GNU Health for local and remote physicians to improve the medical care of the people in Afghanistan. ADAV-Weimar (Afghan-German Doctors Association) is a registered voluntary association in […]

IRPF-Livre 2023 released Governments come and go, but the oppression of imposed taxing software for taxation remains. For a lot of people, using software they cannot control is like water for a fish: a part of the environment they're in. When the water is low on oxygen, they may even feel the […]

Hello, dear readers! Today's article describes Ark, a new JavaScript-based mobile development platform. If you haven't read them yet, you might want to start by having a look at my past articles on Capacitor, React Native, NativeScript, and Flutter; having a common understanding of the design […]

Bankrupt Banking institutions have sought to automate customer service through websites and, more recently, through TRApps. https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-03-TRApps What these banks are saving in offices and staff, we customers are paying for with security and freedom. They are morally […]

Let’s reflect on some of my recent work that started with understanding Trisquel GNU/Linux, improving transparency into apt-archives, working on reproducible builds of Trisquel, strengthening verification of apt-archives with Sigstore, and finally thinking about security device threat models. […]

We are delighted and somewhat relieved to announce that the third reduction of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been merged in the main branch of Guix! If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program—something that had never been […]

Good day, gentle hackfolk. Like an old-time fiddler I would appear to be deep in the groove, playing endless variations on a theme, in this case mobile application frameworks. But one can only recognize novelty in relation to the familiar, and today's note is a departure: we are going to look at […]

Greetings, hackers tall and hackers small!We're only a few articles in to this series on mobile application development frameworks, but I feel like we are already well into our journey. We started our trip through the design space with a look at Ionic / Capacitor, which defines its user interface […]

Hey hey! Today's missive continues exploring the space of JavaScript and mobile application development.Yesterday we looked into Ionic / Capacitor, giving a brief structural overview of what Capacitor apps look like under the hood and how this translates to three aspects of performance: startup […]

As suggested in my initial announcement of apt-sigstore my plan was to look into stronger uses of Sigstore than rekor, and I’m now happy to announce that the apt-cosign plugin has been added to apt-sigstore and the operational project debdistcanary is publishing cosign-statements about the […]

Welcome back to Dissecting Guix! Last time, we discussed monads, the functional programming idiom used by Guix to thread a store connection through a series of store-related operations.Today, we'll be talking about a concept rather more specific to Guix: g-expressions. Being an implementation of […]

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.2.

Do you want your apt-get update to only ever use files whose hash checksum have been recorded in the globally immutable tamper-resistance ledger rekor provided by the Sigstore project? Well I thought you’d never ask, but now you can, thanks to my new projects apt-verify and apt-sigstore. I […]

Are you writing a script and some command doesn’t accept hostnames and you don’t want to inline the IP address? dig +short is your friend! $ dig +short gbenson.net 69.163.152.201

We're pleased to announce the release of MediaGoblin 0.12.1. See the release notes for full details and upgrading instructions. This patch release fixes a number of Python dependency issues, allows us to support newer autoconf versions, fixes a few small bugs and improves the documentation. Support […]

I have released parted 3.6 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.6.tar.xz   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.6.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:   https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html […]

The absolute number may not be impressive, but what I hope is at least a useful contribution is that there actually is a number on how much of Trisquel is reproducible. Hopefully this will inspire others to help improve the actual metric. tl;dr: go to reproduce-trisquel. When I set about to […]

Dear community GNU Health 4.2.1 patchset has been released ! Priority: High Table of Contents About GNU Health Patchsets Updating your system with the GNUHealth control Center Installation notes List of other issues related to this patchset About GNU Health Patchsets We provide […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, April 6, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. The RYF certification mark means that this product meets the FSF's standards […]

Software development is a social process. What might be a “bug” for someone might well be a “feature” for someone else. The Guix project rediscovered it the hard way when, after “fixing a bug” that had been present in Guix System for years, it was confronted […]

GNUnet 0.19.4 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.3. Special thanks goes out to ulfvonbelow who provided an array of patches. This is not an April Fool's joke. Download links gnunet-0.19.4.tar.gz ( signature ) The GPG key […]

I have released an alpha version of parted-3.5.28 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.5.28.tar.xz   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.5.28.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:   […]

GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter.  Of course it processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages. For more information, see https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/ This release is a minor bug-fix release; no pressing need to update unless you’re affected […]

We have released version 7.0.3 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This is a minor bug-fix release. It's available via a mirror (xz is much smaller than gz, but gz is available too just in case): http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.xz […]

Some interesting notes. I will update this posting as i find more: * https://dart.dev/guides/libraries/objective-c-interop

As the much villified theme for star trek enterprise says "its been a long road getting from there to here" i am almost done with all of the work that needed to be done to get us to Catalina compatibility in GNUstep. The reason this is still significant is because Apple hasn't made many changes to […]

This is to announce grep-3.10, a stable release, fixing a bug with -P and \d. TL;DR, grep-3.9 would do this:   $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 grep -P '\d' <<< ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩   […]

GNU Parallel 20230322 ('Arrest Warrant') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4 Quote of the month:   GNU parallel is magic, half of my work uses it, to the point where they're referenced and thanked in my thesis     -- Best Catboy Key Grip […]

This is to announce coreutils-9.2, a stable release. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! There have been 209 commits by 14 people in the 48 weeks since 9.1. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: […]

Update: Jami has won this year's Award for Project of Social Benefit, presented by the Free Software Foundation "to a project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, to intentionally and significantly benefit society. This award stresses the use […]

GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course it processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages. More detailed web pages about GNU a2ps is available at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/a2ps/. This release is a minor bug-fix release. It fixes a long-standing […]

Our most ambitious release to date, Trisquel 11.0 Aramo is out! After extensive work and thorough testing, we are proud to declare Aramo to be production-ready. This release brings many improvements and covers more grounds both in terms of machines supported and in installation options. Here are […]

The TRApp Trap Mobile phone apps, that our board member Alexandre Oliva calls TRApps in his new article, have replaced, not very spontaneously, web sites that adhered to international standards and were compatible with free systems, TRApping people in a duopoly of proprietary and invasive […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Saturday, March 18, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the recipients of the 2022 Free Software Awards, which are given annually at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference to groups and individuals in the free software community who have made […]

Linux-libre turns 15! It was February 2008 when Jeff Moe announced Linux-libre, a project to share the efforts that freedom-respecting distros had to undertake to drop the nonfree bits distributed as part of the kernel Linux. […]