What do you get the open supply fanatic that has every part? More open supply, in fact! We requested our group of contributors to share their favourite reward concepts. The finish of the 12 months is stuffed with vacation spirit, however these presents are excellent for any purpose or season.
Programmable {hardware}
I’d like to suggest the Digirule2. I need one for myself! Unfortunately, they’re out of inventory.
The Digirule2 is an 8-bit programmable minimal instruction set laptop within the fashion of the Altair 8800, the place you enter a program in machine code. It’s a good way to discover programming, or to show others how programming works on the {hardware} degree with machine code. Every program instruction is an 8-bit binary code that you just enter through switches and LEDs on the ruler. You can enter packages with as much as 256 directions.
Since I used to be unable to purchase one, I wrote an 8-bit programmable minimal instruction set laptop for Linux, known as the Toy CPU.
Linux screensavers for Windows machines
Give the reward of one in every of these two Linux distributions that run as screensavers for Microsoft Windows methods.
Price is $0. Download them right here:
https://people.redhat.com/chward/QemuSaverOpen/QemuSaverOpen-1-6.zip
https://people.redhat.com/chward/QemuSaverOpen/QemuSaverOpenGames-1-4.zip
—Chris Ward
For java lovers
For the open supply developer who loves espresso, the Spinn is wonderful.
Raspberry pi various
The ODROID-H3 is a single board laptop billed as a Raspberry Pi killer. It’s promoting for $165.
Mastodon
If you’ve got made the leap to Mastodon, arrange a month-to-month donation to your own home server.
Open supply router
The open supply router Turris Omnio.
- OpenWRT based mostly
- Performant {hardware}
- Not fairly low cost although
Books
Standard Ebooks produces new editions of public area ebooks with very nice formatting, an open supply workflow, don’t have any DRM, and price $0 to obtain. They primarily present the ending touches for the work began by Project Gutenberg. One of those ebooks may very well be a pleasant $0 reward (within the occasion that you just’re strapped for money) for any individual who loves studying the classics or obscure.
Every open supply fanatic wants a duplicate of Virus Bomb and Bullseye Breach. Enjoy the fiction. Use the schooling. Jerry Barkley is simply an IT contractor attempting to earn a residing and feed his household. He by no means labored for the federal government. He’s no superhero. But reactions to the cyberattack situations he runs up towards and the options he comes up with are as actual as might be. Maybe actual superheroes are strange individuals who step up when known as.
Music
Music makes an awesome reward. Think about shopping for fascinating music in open codecs – FLAC, or vinyl(!!!) for instance – on your pals and family members.
Open supply necessities
Open supply swag from tasks just like the Open Source Initiative and Freewear would make a superb present. Freewear donates proceeds from every t-shirt buy again to the venture.
- A Raspberry Pi
- Stickers out of your favourite convention or venture
- Project donations and memberships
Another concept is to lastly make that code contribution you’ve been laying aside. That’s a present to a cherished one who makes use of the software program (and to the venture’s maintainers).
If you are still uncertain of what to get, obtain and print one in every of our many eBooks or cheat sheets for that particular somebody in your life.
