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I'm giving up on open source
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,582 posts.
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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize
BlueHats prizes is an initiative by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate. They are awarded to maintainers of critical free and open source projects. In 2024 four prizes of € 10 000 each will be given out. We are happy to announce the winner of the first 2024 BlueHats prize is Simon Kelley, maintainer of the…
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
Updates & fixes, dev contributors, and the new COSMIC App Store.
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LXQt 2.0.0
The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
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Firefox 125
NOTE: Due to a high-severity quality issue discovered shortly before release, the 125.0 release was skipped in favor of 125.0.1.
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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor recently found in XZ, which is used in many popular Linux distributions and in OpenSSH server process.
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OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter
On April 3rd, we received a Cease and Desist letter from HashiCorp regarding our implementation of the "removed" block in OpenTofu, claiming copyright infringement on the part of one of our core developers. We were also made aware of an article posted that same day with the same accusations. We have investigated these…
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Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
Introducing OLMo 7B, a truly open, state-of-the-art large language model.
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Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
I’ve received numerous complaints via email, social media, and forums regarding a website that poses a significant threat to our community. The copycat site in question is https://notepad.plus/ which appears prominently when users google for “download Notepad++”.
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Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
The Redict community is pleased to announce the release of Redict 7.3.0, the first stable version of our copyleft fork of Redis® OSS 7.2.4.1 You can download the release on Codeberg, or download one of our official container images from registry.redict.io. We have written comprehensive documentation detailing our…
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Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
The Redox official website
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Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16
Veloren 0.16 Release
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The rev.ng decompiler goes open source
In this blog post we announce the open sourcing of the rev.ng decompiler, the start of the UI closed beta, how to try rev.ng and much more!
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The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source
At Modular, open source is ingrained in our DNA. We firmly believe for Mojo to reach its full potential, it must be open source. We have been progressively open-sourcing more of Mojo and parts of the MAX platform, and today we’re thrilled to announce the release of the core modules from the Mojo standard library under…
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Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.
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Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated
31 years after the start of its career in 1993, it’s time for ext2 to retire. Here we are talking about the driver for this filesystem, not exactly the filesystem itself. Continue reading to understand the subtle difference.
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DBRX: A new open LLM
Explore DBRX, the advanced open-source LLM from Databricks redefining model efficiency and quality, leading in AI benchmarks.
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The SSPL is Not an Open Source License
We’ve seen that several companies have abandoned their original dedication to the open source community by switching their core products from an open source license, one approved by the Open Source…
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Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Developers love Redis. Unlock the full potential of the Redis database with Redis Enterprise and start building blazing fast apps.
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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
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Pine64 March update: making waves
Long awaited community update is here! Introducing PineVox and bone conduction headset (help us find a name!), IronOS progress, PineNote insights, and PineTime news! We also cover cluster failure, state of services, and the future of the community updates. See you in the upcoming Q&A!
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Identifying Software
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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The Bevy Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …
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NVK is now ready for prime time
As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.
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Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
Secure everything coding agents build, use, and ship - prevent risk before code exists, AutoFix the backlog, and protect the coding agents and supply chain.
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Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution
Dear Open Collective Community, It is with sad hearts that we have heard the news about Open Collective Foundation decision to dissolve, effective December 31. The full content of their announcement, which came as a surprise to us, can be found here, and they have also created an FAQ. We