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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 22h

Join in on the fun with Writing Month 2025: writingmonth.org

Writing Month

writingmonth.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 1d

Please join us next year for #SoftwareFreedomDay2026 and #DocumentFreedomDay2026. We hope to reach even more people and locations in 2026. #DFF #SFD2026

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Linux Italia www.linuxday.it/2025/ combining their events with ours & to all the others groups that participated in #SFD2025 this year, we have surpassed our goal of 100 events. 2025 isn't over yet. There's still time to put your event on the map. Join us in celebrating #FreeSoftware.

Linux Day 2025

Giornata Nazionale per il Software Libero

www.linuxday.it

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 4d

If anyone's interested, we have a thread going on #ItsFOSS about the new #Android policy changes: itsfoss.community/t/android-po...

Android policy changes

I’ve been reading and seeing videos about some Google policy changes that would affect side-loading of apps on Android in the next few years. Doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a positive change for...

itsfoss.community

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kaerF @krf.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

I would work on publishing my presentation but I’m occupied. #sfd2025 #hsbxl

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 22d

Here's my list of #FLOSS educational games:
codeberg.org/lmemsm/delig...
Some of them can even be played online.

delightful-educational-games

A curated list of of Free, Libre and Open Source educational games.

codeberg.org

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 22d

How can I not mention the K.Mandla blog which is the place to go to find #lightweight #software that works well on older #computers?
kmandla.wordpress.com/software/
Plus, the great Inconsolation site by the same author:
inconsolation.wordpress.com/index/

Software

I am a harsh software critic. I’m usually willing to try something new if there’s the possibility it will do a better job than my current favorite, but I hold grudges against programs &…

kmandla.wordpress.com

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 22d

Libre Projects is an older list but a good starting point to introduce
newcomers to #FreeSoftware when they can't install programs on their
own systems.
libreprojects.net

Libre Projects

libreprojects.net

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 22d

F-droid's a wonderful resource for Free Software for phones. Unlike
smart phones with commercial apps stores, you can even create your own
F-droid repository. Thought I'd highlight this repository which adds
even more app choices to F-droid:
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositorie...

apt.izzysoft.de

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · 22d

PortableApps is my favorite site to introduce #Windows users to the
benefits of #FreeSoftware. Extra bonus, these programs avoid the
Windows registry and you don't need to be an administrator on a
Windows system to run them.
portableapps.com

PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives

portableapps.com

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 22d

Tomorrow is #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. Time for one more question on favorite #FreeSoftware before #SFD2025. What are your favorite web sites or web pages with lists of Free Software? It could be a list of Free alternatives or programs on a particular topic. #DFF

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 22d

#SoftwareFreedomDay2025 will kick off all around the world in different time zones on Saturday, Sept 20th. We'll be posting news and highlights here:
digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/...
See #SoftwareFreedomDay on matrix if you want to chat live with others. #SFD2025

Software Freedom Day 2025 - What's going on! - Digital Freedom Foundation

The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day

digitalfreedoms.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 22d

There's still time to find a local or virtual event to attend for Software Freedom Day 2025: digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archi...
Look for or share SFD2025 related social media posts with hashtags #SFD2025 and #SoftwareFreedomDay2025

Archive - Digital Freedom Foundation

The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day

digitalfreedoms.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 23d

#FreeSoftware is great in emergencies. Here's a list that celebrates #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 and #HardwareFreedomDay2026 with suggestions of useful #FOSS and #OpenHardware: codeberg.org/lmemsm/delig...
What are your favorites in these categories?

delightful-off-grid-open-tech

Technology, open hardware and open source software resources for use off-grid, for power outages and other emergency situations.

codeberg.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 23d

An opening talk for #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 will be delivered virtually by none other than our own Jurgen Gaeremyn, #DFF Board member and #FreeSoftware advocate.
Register for the Software Freedom Day 2025 Virtual Edition from NOSK to attend: luma.com/e1gz9zpy #SFD2025

NOSK SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2025 · Luma

Software Freedom Day 2025 – Nepal 🗓 Date: September 20, 2025 (Saturday) 🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Online 👥 Audience: Students, developers,…

luma.com

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · 26d

4 days and counting to #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. What's your favorite #FLOSS music player? I like the lightweight combo of #FLTK based flrec and #sox. I'm also a fan of #qmmp. #SFD2025

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lmemsm.bsky.social @lmemsm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy Star Trek Day (Sept 8th). Wanted to share some science fiction themed #OpenSource Software: lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/31725.html #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

Captcha Check

lmemsm.dreamwidth.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(7/7) #pdcurses ( pdcurses.org ) brings the ease of use of the classic curses library to a wide variety of platforms. You can run pdcurses applications with X Windows, Wayland, Android or anywhere else SDL works with that backend. Use BSD #form and #menu libraries to add more GUI functionality.

PDCurses

A curses library for environments that don’t fit the termcap/terminfo model.

pdcurses.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(6/7) If you're looking for a GUI library that works with your #OpenGL programs, I really like #OTK: sourceforge.net/projects/otk/ There are some interesting sample programs for this library.

Open Graphics Toolkit

Download Open Graphics Toolkit for free. Otk (Open Tool Kit) - portable library for graphical user interfaces (GUI's) based on C and OpenGL. Emphasizes simplicity without eliminating capability.

sourceforge.net

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(5/7) #nuklear doesn't have as many applications as many other GUIs, but it ports to an impressive number of systems. The list of nuklear programs includes a CAD program: github.com/vurtun/nukle...
nuklear ( github.com/Immediate-Mo... ) is lightweight but still offers a lot of functionality.

Projects and programs (with screenshots) using Nuklear · Issue #202 · vurtun/nuklear

In this thread, please post information about Nuklear in the wild: project/program name link(s) to the project screenshots or other related media like youtube videos or assets comments, remarks Pro...

github.com

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(4/7) #FLTK has a lot of the features of standard #GUI libraries but still manages to be lightweight with few dependencies. It's been used with #nano-x to create #XFDOS and #nanolinux. #TinyCore also features FLTK applications. Here's a list of FLTK programs: www.fltk.org/links.php?LC...

Links: By Category - Links - Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK)

www.fltk.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(3/7) #SDL is a popular graphics library:
www.libsdl.org
With addons like sdl3_ttf, sdl3_mixer, sdl3_image, sdl3_gfx, you can easily get text and graphics on screen or listen to music. Have SDL2 programs you want to keep enjoying? Check out the compatibility layer:
github.com/libsdl-org/s...

Simple DirectMedia Layer - Homepage

www.libsdl.org

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(2/7) One of my favorites, #raylib. It's designed so students can start programming quickly without having to spend a lot of time learning how to get text and graphics on screen:
github.com/raysan5/raygui
Check out some of the games created for it:
www.raylib.com/games.html

GitHub - raysan5/raygui: A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library

A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library - raysan5/raygui

github.com

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 27

(1/7) In preparation for #SFD2025, I thought it might be fun to discuss lightweight GUIs. Maybe some of them will inspire you to create your own #FreeSoftware for #SoftwareFreedomDay2025.

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Digital Freedom Foundation @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social · Jul 14

This SPI Instrumentation Project has professional grade instrument designs for scientific experiments:
github.com/drmcnelson
They can be built for a fraction of the cost compared to similar professional equipment. A wonderful resource for anyone interested in #OpenHardware and #physics.

drmcnelson - Overview

Engineer, instrumentation, science applications, and researcher in org electronic, acoustics, phys chem. Photo from piper super-cub over southern Delaware. - drmcnelson

github.com

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