Making You a Better Linux User
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
My FOSS Story - Andrew Gallant's Blog
I’d like to break from my normal tradition of focusing almost strictly on technical content and share a bit of my own personal relationship with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). While everyone is different, my hope is that sharing my perspective will help build understanding, empathy and trust.
Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It's Taking Over the World
25 years after Linus Torvalds unveiled Linux, the free operating system is still finding new uses.
FOSS funding, co-operation, and the Digital Life Collective
Free open-source software (FOSS) is the bedrock of our digital world. This is a story about getting funding for FOSS engineering…
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn
It’s responsive—sometimes. Some things just work plain better. Settings being stored in actual config files instead of opaque registries? That’s an accessibility win. When something breaks, you don’t have to reinstall the whole OS like you would on Windows. Most importantly: it’s mine. To do with as I please. To fix, break, rebuild, and own.
Pop!_OS Linux Operating System | Secure, Customizable & Productive
Explore Pop!_OS, a Linux operating system built for productivity, customization, security, and software compatibility. Free to download from System76.
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.
oss-security - Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.
Distributions are becoming irrelevant: difference was our strength and our liability
For someone that has spent the past thirteen years defining himself as a developer of a Linux distribution…
Weird little guys of FOSS
This is a list of weird little guys in the free software movement and adjacent spaces. Request additions, removals, or changes via email; patches welcome.
Hackathon on Decentralised Media - TEP (Trusted European Platforms) Bluesky, Nostr · Luma
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open-source software from all over the world gather at FOSDEM. For two weeks around this event – from the 26th…
Glim is the Ventoy alternative Linux enthusiasts should use instead
Give your distro-hopping a new tool
"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
