Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Make - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
oss-security - Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
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Unix system programming in OCaml
Translation by Daniel C. Bünzli, Eric Cooper, Eliot Handelman, Priya Hattiangdi, Thad Meyer, Prashanth Mundkur, Richard Paradies, Till Varoquaux, Mark Wong-VanHaren
The operating system: should there be one?
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GNU Affero General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
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Seph
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we…
Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Here's an interesting stunt: a project called Malus.sh will take your money, and in exchange, it will ingest any free/open source code you want, refactor that code using an LLM, and spit out a "clean room" version that is freed from all the obligations imposed by the original project's software license:
Mx. Aria Stewart (@aredridel@kolektiva.social)
I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.
Ten FOSS Development Fallacies For User Facing Software
This is a list, inspired by the Five Geek Social Fallacies, of common patterns or behaviours that developers of free/open source software (FOSS) fall into when they try to develop software for users who are not technical, or for whom non-technical users would be the most obvious userbase. Hopefully writing these down (which frankly is cathartic more than anything) is helpful to some in recognising these thought patterns and avoiding them when developing software - I’ve got some of my own thoughts on this at the bottom.
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Linux Toolbox
A collection of programs for Linux that I’ve found useful/fun or are my favourites!
Install Spider on Linux | Flathub
wimpysworld/sidra
Install Buffer on Linux | Flathub
johnfactotum/runemaster
Install Gear Lever on Linux | Flathub
Install Concessio on Linux | Flathub