FSF approved distro (now Linux based soon with own FLOSS-BSD-kernel)

Do you want to participate? (esp. BSD-kernel-dev would be very welcome 😁)

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There are countless Distros that do not always make it easy to choose the one that best suits each person's needs and knowledge. This page, through a small test, proposes the Distro or Distros that best fit.

it would be good to know if they use it, I know it doesn't indicate they are open source (which, most online stores aren't), but if they use any open source library, or api, etc, do they credit them correctly? (for example using software licensed under BSD, etc). That can be a way of knowing if they are stealing other people's data or not.

Hi, is there and good FOSS for tracking my expeses and planning Budgets etc. for android? I tried money wallet for 2 weeks now but it feels pretty basic in terms of overview and statistics so it is a help but just a little

MotionBox accesses and aggregates videos via the VBML language.

It supports DuckDuckGo, BitTorrent, TMDB, Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok, Facebook, Odysee, PeerTube, Last.fm and SoundCloud.

All of this inside multiple tabs and without ever showing an ad.

(Windows, Mac, Linux, Android) Source https://github.com/omega-gg/MotionBox

Hey Folks, I've made a couple kiosks in the past around the house, but I'm hoping there's an easier solution out there. Previously I'd install raspbian or something on to a pi and then remote into a full-screened chromium to set it up.

Does anyone know of a good OS that theoretically boot directly to a URL with minimal effort? Like I said I can do it manually but I'd like something pre-built for the task.

Bonus points if it would have a web-configurator, I may want to change the URL it's using occasionally and it'd be nice not to have to remote in directly.

I came across everyday topic on Techlore Discussions about free and open source keyboards for Android and discovered this little gem. It is FlorisBoard, a virtual keyboard for Android which respects privacy of the user. I can sigh with relief and finish my search for that singular keyboard for typing stuff on the go.

• Demo
• 💬 Techlore Discussions
• 📲 Download on F-Droid
• 🧑‍💻 Repository

It has everything I need and more.

• Multilanguage support: detailed layout options, popular presets
• Swift and glide typing experience
• Customizable gestures: switch language by fast swiping the keyboard itself left and right, change case by swiping up, the infamous cursor swipe on space bar
• Emojis
• Clipboard
• Smartbar: quick actions and clipboard cursor tools
• One-handed mode
• Other look-and-feel settings

As per the title. I can’t find anything on fdroid. I was surprised, so checking in here. Thank you

It now supports unlimited size transfers. Have a 24GB Blu-ray rip to back up? Go for it! A 1TB disk image? You got it!

I run into a need for this type of software frequently but I don't know what it's called or if it exists. I am very adept at Google Sheets and it works great for pulling in data from other places, creating custom little dashboards and forms, etc but where it's not particularly good is storing relational data for example "This book is written by author" and then having "author" be some other entity with its own attributes.

Now of course, there's SQL but using SQL requires learning SQL syntax which is much more complex. Plus, you have to define a schema and changing schema after you've made the db can be complicated. Not to mention if you use SQL, now you need some kind of front-end to the SQL to make it more friendly to a user even if they would be fine at their skill level managing google sheets.

There are many great CRMs, CMSes, and other systems (I have used Drupal in the past for this niche), but they are often much more difficult to customize than Google Sheets and focused more on data storage/retrieval and less on using that data to calculate things, make graphs etc.

I know AirTable exists, it seems closer to what I want to use, but of course it is not OSS. What other "middle ground" or 'more powerful sheets' tools are out there, and are any OSS?

I've gotten pretty far using FOSS tools when it comes to making games, but I would like something like Substance Painter so I can fully dabble into 3D.

Nothing AAA quality or very professional, I just want something that works good enough for my indie games lol.

piped link

Here's a tough one for you:

An alternative to AutoDesk Fusion360 for 3D print modeling.

Ideally with native Linux support but I'm more concerned with getting out from under AutoDesk's thumb than I am with using wine.

Blender seems like the obvious choice, but it's not really built for 3d printing.

It's looking like FreeCAD may be about as good as it gets unless someone here has some other suggestions.

I've been sitting jobless, graduated with a useless degree and no motivation or direction since about a year. I have not completed any projects yet, so I have nothing to show. I contribute a little bit of here and there testing GitLab features and NixOS bugs and packages.

The project I'm working on right now is a half-assed SvelteKit personal portfolio with badly designed Tailwind components - I've started it last December and it's still pending. Done a few React project here and there and quit it halfway. Same story for backend in Gin and ExpressJS. I've also left my SQlite clone and TUI text editor incomplete.

I was thinking of working with an open source maintainer who can mentor me in any project that can teach me transferrable skills while also not being very niche, like Vulkan or DSP-related. It doesn't necessarily have to be web-dev, but if so, I'd like to favour server-side. I was thinking of Forgejo, but my previous experience with GitLab is making me consider avoiding it. I was also thinking about Windowmaker and Hurd, but they're both going to be way too difficult and also niche.

If I had to be honest, I suck at all languages, but I have played around with Ruby, C, C++, Java, JS, TS, Lua, OCaml, Guille, Go and Python. A little bit of everything. Also a little bit of Docker, Nix, and basic Linux terminal.

Binary downloads for Linux/macOS/windows: https://flamenco.blender.org/download/

Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn't that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.