this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
38 points (100.0% liked)

Free and Open Source Software

17682 readers
111 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Just this morning I thought to myself, what software does the FSF have as a flagship and its basically GIMP. GIMP which when asked about an Android version a year or so ago, said they couldn't do and they've made no movement in being able to do it. It's sad that their relevancy in tomorrow's world will be limited.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh? How did you narrow it down to just GIMP? Are you excluding all non-GUI software or something? GUI has never been a big focus for GNU (which I assume is what you're referring to when you say FSF), though they do have a couple of projects like GIMP and GNUCash. Most notably as far as GUI is concerned, they instigated the GNOME project, though they later split off. But yeah, they still maintain extremely important tools, especially for developers and UNIX systems, such as glibc, coreutils, gcc, emacs, gdb, make, bash, grub, octave, guix, etc.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't Grub moot now? You're right in that I'm being unfair with my GUI based mindset.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

there are many non-systemd distros

load more comments (9 replies)