My honest opinion: Taxpayer money should be spent wisely. That means investing in #opensource software, not expensive proprietary technology. Better value, more transparency, and no vendor lock-in.

TIL: The European Union Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing

Huge respect 🫡

#opensource

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The entire world's IT infrastructure: A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball. Unpaid open source devs: Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.

This retro-computing project restores support for x87 floating-point unit (FPU) emulation in the NetBSD kernel, targeting legacy 486SX-class processors without hardware FPUs https://github.com/mezantrop/i486SX_soft_FPU?tab=readme-ov-file

#unix #netbsd #opensource

OpenBSD 7.7 released with AMD SEV support in QEMU, SMP improvements, updated DRM based on Linux Kernel 6.12.21, kernel support for Ryzen AI 300, Radeon RX 9070 and Intel ArrowLake, new Intel E810 ethernet devices driver, support for MA devices, installer and bootloader improvements

https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

#openbsd #openbsd77 #bsd #amdsev #amdryzen #qemu #opensource #freesoftware

Dear $conference,

I would like to report a bug.

You appear to have published your Call for Papers before publishing your Health Policy/Code of Conduct. This excludes both potential speakers who rely on these policies for their protection and their allies.

Policies must not be an afterthought. They need to be considered and finalized *before* committing to running the conference.

Yours etc.

Potential Speaker and Attendee at your conference.

PS. Keep up the good work!

#FOSS #OpenSource

Please welcome @PodOS to the Fediverse 🎉 Follow it to keep updated about it's development and get interesting tips and tricks about what you can do with it and the #Solid ecosystem.

#Web #PodOS #SolidProject #LinkedData #DataSovereignty #OpenSource

Have a GitFlow diagram I made using DrawIO

#agile #scrum #git #gitflow #tech #development #opensource #programming

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A Granular Agile Oriented GitFlow visualisation diagram, showing how to organise development from a git perspective.

@BoxyBSD was always for BSD based systems only. I focussed to push the whole BSD community and to encourage people to try BSD based systems (such like #FreeBSD. #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, etc.) but I'm not sure if it might provide more value to the whole #opensource community by also supporting #Linux systems (such like #Debian, #Ubuntu, #RockyLinux, #SuSe and more).

I'm not sure if the #BoxyBSD project still provides a value for the community right, now.

What do you think?

TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: "Fangtooth" only with GNU/Linux base

With TrueNAS 25.04, iXsystems finally says goodbye to its FreeBSD roots and focuses fully on the enterprise sector.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/TrueNAS-25-04-drops-FreeBSD-Fangtooth-only-with-GNU-Linux-base-10363267.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#FreeBSD #IT #Linux #OpenSource #news

And this is why if public money is being spent the code should be open source:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm8lmz1xk1o

I bet @openuk has something to say on this!

#OpenSource #PostOffice #Horizon

New release of #FediAlgo (customizable algorithm for you #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:

1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)

2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers

All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.

https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

#FediTools #FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #activitypub #mastohelp #Fedi #foss #nodejs #opensource #MastoAdmin #SocialWeb #Feed #timeline #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #TL

🌟 Introducing BSD.cafe 🌟

Excited to present the first building block of the BSD Cafe project! When I registered this domain months ago, I envisioned a themed bar where we can casually chat about *BSD systems, Linux, and Open-Source technology among friends, acquaintances, and patrons. But like any bar, discussions can cover a wide range of topics while respecting everyone.

BSD.cafe will be a hub for various tools and services, powered by *BSD.

The first brick is a new Mastodon instance, a gateway to the Fediverse. Registration is open, and the server will be moderated under clear guidelines promoting good behavior and zero tolerance for hate towards anyone. Inclusivity, respect, and constructive dialogue are the key values of this new instance.

The main server is currently hosted in Finland on a small VM, based on #FreeBSD. Services are divided into VNET jails, connected in a LAN via a local bridge. A VPN system is also present and have been able to move individual jails to different, more powerful, machines.

Multimedia data and cache are hosted on another physical server (FreeBSD, within a jail), with Cloudflare in front. The aim is to cache and geodistribute data, reducing network traffic on the main VPS.

Reverse proxy (frontend), mail server, media server, and the instance itself are reachable via #ipv6.

The instance started empty. No unnecessary content was pre-loaded; I want it to grow organically based on users' interests and following. There won't be any preemptive blocks at this stage. Users are encouraged to promptly report anything they find worth flagging.

Join us at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe to build a constructive and inclusive community—a safe and relaxing space for everyone.

Our wiki, located at https://wiki.bsd.cafe, features essential links and articles related to the BSD world. It provides an overview of the tools, services, rules, uptime, and more information about the BSD Cafe Services.

A Matrix server, a Miniflux RSS Reader, the Wiki itself, and the BlendIT Lemmy instance are all part of the BSD Cafe services, with more to come.

#BSD #OpenSource #Fediverse #Community #Tech #Networking #Mastodon #Inclusivity #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #Linux #OSS #SysAdmin #Miniflux #RSS #Matrix

Wonderful news to share: @compiler_explorer has received a $10K grant from NVIDIA's FOSS Fund!

After years of collaboration with their engineers to support GPU compilation, this funding will help us maintain the AWS GPU instances that make CUDA experimentation accessible to all.

A huge thank you to NVIDIA for supporting open source tools that benefit the entire developer community! #NVIDIAGrant #OpenSource

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu