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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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 5 months ago

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

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

there are many non-systemd distros

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 points 5 months ago

What do you mean with flagship software of the FSF? Why not krita, ardour, kdenlive, darktables, wine,...?

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 5 months ago

Because none of the projects you mentioned are GNU projects.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mhm in that case: Emacs, grub, tar, screen. And damn, did you know about GNUHealth? Thats pretty dope.

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I didn't, and I was looking for something similar, thanks!

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Forget screen, all my homies use tmux

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

Mobile will never replace desktop. I would never do graphic art on a mobile device

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

They can both exist

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

not everyone agrees, but that's ok

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