Notiziario Software Libero

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Monday, September 14, 2026), — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that GNU Boot is its latest fiscally sponsored project. GNU Boot is a libre, ethical replacement for the nonfree BIOS or UEFI, which is software found in virtually all personal computers in the world today.

Guix system and Guix home introduce the concept of services. These provide users with a way to control background processes, commonly refereed as daemons, as well as ways of controlling the setup of files. For example, openssh-service-type is a service which controls a SSH daemon.

Today marks the day of soft-launching of my Debian derivative, which I’ve been using on several of my own machines for the past year or so. This is still work in progress, but I wanted to establish a launch date of the project so below is the DiffOS manifesto as motivation for continued work.

DiffOS is For Freedom! DiffOS is the Debian Increment For Freedom Operating System.

GNU Parallel 20260822 ('Ceuta') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4

Quote of the month:

  Parallel has an option for almost everything, it's almost too much.
    -- tester457@ycombinator

New in this release:

o Fix minor groff warnings in manpages.
o Fix portability of building manpages.
o Fix minor bugs found by code analysis:
  - bmc-watchdog: Fix bug with --arp-response command line parsing.
  - ipmi/rmcpping: Fix bug with finding an IPv6 interface.
  - ipmidetect: fix bug in which hostname configs not used properly
  - ipmi-oem intelnm: fix parsing of hours/minutes error
  - ipmi-oem: Correct Dell CMC IPv6 autoconfiguration output.
  - ipmi-oem: Correct Dell iDRAC web server control output.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Wednesday, August 26, 2026) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual to be our new Systems Integration Administrator. This position is ideally full-time and US-based, but exceptions can be made for a qualified candidate.

This is to announce automake-1.18.92, a beta release in preparation for automake-1.19.  Announcement:

https://lists.gnu ... -08/msg00000.html

unrtf 0.21.12 is released, fixing a serious recently submitted security issue.

The recently published Springer book "Tokenisation of Money: From Fiat Currencies to Stablecoins" includes the chapter "Taler as a synthetic Central Bank Digital Currency" by Christian Grothoff, Mikolai Gütschow and Valentin Seehausen. It discusses the potentials and benefits of GNU Taler as a technological enabler for privately issued CBDCs.