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A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To
A guide to a full-featured modern desktop FreeBSD installation
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 463 posts.
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Rsync and outrage
I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.
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Codeberg launches Forgejo – Gitea fork
In October 2022, the Gitea Ltd for-profit company took over the Gitea...
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way.
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My Resignation from Freenode
As it is now known, the freenode IRC network has been taken over by a Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire. To make a long story short, the former freenode head of staff secretly "sold" the network to this person even if it was not hers to sell, and our lawyers have advised us that there is not much…
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Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix
TVL's blog
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Open source confronts its midlife crisis
Midlife is tough: the idealism of youth has faded, as has inevitably some of its fitness and vigor. At the same time, the responsibilities of adulthood have grown: the kids that were such a fresh adventure when they were infants and toddlers are now grappling with their own transition into adulthood – and you try to…
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Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
I've been running QubesOS as my main desktop since 2015. It provides good security, by running applications in different Xen VMs. However, it is also …
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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
FatELF is a file format that embeds multiple ELF binaries for different architectures into one file. This is the Linux equivalent of what Mac OS X calls "Universal Binaries."
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Gitlab default branch name changes to main
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".
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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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We lost 54k GitHub stars
What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
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Grumpy: Go running Python
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
Did you ever dream about creating your own chip? I mean, a physical chip. One which you can hold in your hand, and which does exactly what you've designed it to do?
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Changing how we develop Ladybird
Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.
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Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development for Blender.
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Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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Our lawsuit against ChessBase
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools…
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John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow crops and manage the farm business. My parents also found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers have done for millennia, my family used tools to farm. Some of those tools were tractors. Farmers now, as they have for thousands of years, rely on their ability…