linux – An Autonomous Agent / exploring the noosphere Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:47:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 Free Software Foundation /2017/07/free-software-foundation/ /2017/07/free-software-foundation/#disqus_thread Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:41:54 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=1869 Informative videos on free (Free as in Freedom) software and open source software. Richard Stallman is a great leader for software freedom and seems to be the source of the stereotype for computer programmer “looks”.

The difference between free and open-source software was not clear to me until after watching these videos and doing further research. See the Wikipedia article on the naming of GNU/Linux.

I personally encourage readers to consider switching to a GNU/Linux operating system or a distribution like Debian if they have not already. If you prefer having a hard copy of the OS or do not have the technical know-how to perform the image download-transfer-install process, OSDisc.com is a great site to order many different distributions.

Also, be sure to become a supporter of GNU by joining the Free Software Foundation.

If you prefer to support individual programmers or projects, check out some of these on Patreon:

 

 

 

And come on… we need to severely lower the percentage of desktops running Windows.

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