/r/freesoftware
"Free software" means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, "free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer".
"Free software" means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, "free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer".
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r/FSF - Free Software Foundation
r/GNU - operating system and an extensive collection of computer software
r/LinuxLibre - a version of the Linux kernel that doesn't have non-free components
r/Hurd - kernel for the GNU system
r/FOSSdroid - Free Software for the Android platform
r/libreboot - Free Software BIOS and UEFI alternative
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For those of you looking for an online chat to discuss about Free Software - we have compiled a list of open source and decentralized places where you can do that.
Disclaimer: we, the mods of r/freesoftware do NOT moderate, represent, endorse, associate with any of the places, rooms, servers etc that we list here. Do your own research before deciding to join and/or participate in any of them.
Movim (through the XMPP protocol):
Riot (through the Matrix protocol):
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This tutorial explores how you can combine two open source softwares (Upscayl & VTracer) in order to have great vector tracing output that's competitive with commercial alternatives.
What free safe software for photo editing do you recommend?
I am trying to find again a site replete with drivers and apps and is run by a couple of guys presenting as old gitts or geezers. My bookmark list in a Windows PC reinstall. Thank you.
Upscayl is an awesome AI image upscaler, fully open source and available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Hey, recently I was working on this small windows app that automatically changes your wallpaper by time: https://simonfurlan.github.io/DynamicWallpaperTool/
I made it with Visual Studio WPF C#.
Im looking for people who want to help me test it or just try it.
Has anyone suggestions what I can add to this tool?
I am making an indie video game with Godot and I want to license it under the GNU GPL.
How should I go about making it completely free?
Should my scripts have the copyright notice? Should I distribute Godot's source code with it?
Call to all free software enthusiasts to share their story and relive their experiences of the huddle for freedom. At what point did u stop listening to Richard M Stallman? Are you still listening and following? #software
The FSFE called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for Free Software after recent budget cuts. Results show its success.
Free Sw for basic video edits
Is there an alternative frontend of DeviantArt, like Invidious, Nitter?
Hello All, New to your group. Title say it all. Looking for realistic alternatives to Adobe & Foxit, I've used libra draw for a while but this doesn't scale a lot of the time.
Looking for something simple with no bloating and a little bit of editing capability would be nice. Not Cloud Based ---- Any recommendations??
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bolzano-Bozen (LUGBZ) posthumously honored Bram Moolenaar, creator of the widely used Vim text editor, with the European SFS Award at SFSCON 2024. This award celebrates Moolenaar’s invaluable contributions to the Free Software community.
The colour change should be to pdf file itself and not limited to a particular app
One of my colleges tried to use vscode to develop on an internal server with the Remote SSH plugin, however, after the connection, vscode says it needs to download some vscode-server on the server. After reading some articles from Microsoft, I see vscode-server is non-free. And now I still can't find a replace of this.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server#_can-i-host-the-vs-code-server-as-a-service
And it looks like the remote extensions are not free either.
I developed two open-source IPTV players for Windows using Python, each with unique login methods:
• One player authenticates using a MAC address.
• The other supports logging in via an M3U Plus URL or through Xtream Codes with a username and password.
You can explore both projects here: https://github.com/Cyogenus