The pace of software development - regardless of the licence - is pretty fast these days. The state of your systems need constant monitoring. New features, bug-fixes and (most important) security updates need to be properly managed. Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler.

"If the server mode of Emacs is activated and files are opened through emacsclient, opening files by Emacs can be as fast as vim. But you can see it running on you desktop anyhow, a showing window or a foreground process. Can we make it a background job?

"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 1.1 ..." -- ed - A line-oriented text editor

"To help promote knowledge of free software that isn't GNU software distributed by the FSF, we have collected the following links to other web sites that contain free software, or is directly related to the issue of free software..."

"The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. We will try to provide a clean object oriented API to allow the creation of new innovative interfaces for the synthetizer and a 3D simulator of a Reactable-alike device with support for collaborative music creation over the internet.

"Coreutils version 7.0 has been released. Considering the two new programs, and that several of the existing programs acquired new options or other non-trivial improvements, this qualifies as a feature release and gets the "beta" label. However, most changes have been local and well-tested..."

My interview with RMS is posted to mark the 25th anniversary/birthday of GNU