Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2026

• Jan van den Berg ☛ Get Vorssaint

  And there are about 40 more tools available. You can toggle them on/off.

• Bozhidar Batsov ☛ neorepl 0.5: CIDER in a Terminal | Meta Redux

  neorepl 0.5 is out! When I announced neorepl last month, I wrote that I’d always wanted a terminal REPL that felt like CIDER, without the Emacs part. A few releases later I think neorepl is mostly there, so this one went out with “CIDER in a terminal” for a tagline. It also has everything from the “What’s next” list in the 0.4 post, which almost never happens with my plans.

• Peter Czanik: Test syslog-ng before the 4.13 release

  Version 4.13 of syslog-ng is expected to be released in the coming weeks. There are fixes and enhancements even in the core of syslog-ng. Testing of the latest nightly builds is much appreciated.

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • University of Toronto ☛ Some people (software) seems to ignore 'null MX' records

    These two DNS names continue to get a trickle of email attempts that are clearly ignoring the null MX entries (after I fixed a DNS mistake with one of them, so everything going to them was genuinely ignoring the null MX, not failing to see it). So far these attempts have been divided into two categories.

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ The past, present and future of office suites

    Summary The office suite market is large, profitable and growing, and this attracts new entrants: low-cost clones, open-core products and, more recently, suites built largely with artificial intelligence. Most of them compete on price and on native support for OOXML, a format whose evolution remains in practice under Microsoft’s control.

• Education

  • Hidde de Vries ☛ Reflections from TPAC 2026

    TPAC is W3C's yearly work week. A large part of the Working Groups and all sorts of committees get together to collaborate in person (mostly hybrid). This post has some things I got out of it this year.

  • FOSS United Foundation ☛ Notes from the Asia Pacific Regional IGF 2026 | FOSS United

    From the Asia Pacific Youth Internet Governance Forum (October 3–4) and the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (October 4–7).

  • Andy Bell ☛ If we stop, we lose

    With all of this in mind, we’re fighting back too, so I’m opening up the guest authoring on this site again, just like Geoff is over on CSS-Tricks. I’m determined to get this website cooking again and I would love to share your words with the rest of the industry.

    Let’s buck up our ideas and get cracking, everyone. There’s lots to teach and I know we’ve got plenty of fight left in us.

• FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty

  • FOSS Force ☛ Six German States Choose Nextcloud for a Sovereign School Cloud

    A shared cloud initiative aims to keep school data in Germany while teaching digital skills -- not dependence on individual technology providers.