The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,582 posts.
As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or…
If you reached this page via a link to debian.community , the page you requested no longer exists. Read on to find out why.
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless, I now feel it’s time to confront misconceptions about the…
We've recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
Users can have more trust in ProtonVPN because all our apps are open source and independently audited for security. Learn about Proton VPN’s open source apps.
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It's now available for general use.
Anubis could not load its JavaScript. The server may be overloaded. Please reload the page to try again.
How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs. He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the…
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don't see how you replace such a thing.
KeePassXC Password Manager
As announced on the mailing list , on Friday, Dec 27 2019, our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) .
The dawn of a new decade looms and there is a lot of excitement about the future of Godot! But it was not always like this, as the previous decade did not go as expected..
Not so much work remains to be done to turn /e/ into a desktop operating system. Using an /e/ smartphone as a desktop PC with an external screen, keyboard and mouse is already possible with good usability. Using an /e/ smartphone as a laptop is also possible with scrcpy although some minor improvements are still…
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
In 2015 Cliqz released its own desktop web browser, forked from Firefox. Up to that point, we had distributed our search and privacy products as a single Firefox addon. In this article we cover why we thought it necessary to create our own browser, why we chose Firefox, and why we think it was the right choice.
The VPN industry looks just like the world of religion - everyone has their different beliefs on who to trust. However, even the diamond in the rough lied
A major update on a solid foundation
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
This release adds a lot of (long-awaited) new features and important bugfixes to LibrePCB. Highlights Design Rule Check for Boards (#581) Finally the board editor got a design rule check! It checks a PCB for common mistakes like missing connections, too small clearances (or shorts), or too thin copper elements. A new…
I, the founder of Fossil, was invited and attended the first meeting of the GitHub Open Source Advisory Board in San Francisco on 2019-11-12. This post is a report of my adventures.
The Redox official website
We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few people realize is that there is another major industry that is ripe for an open source overhaul—the…
We’re delighted to announce the release of webOS Open Source Edition (OSE) 2.1.0. The highlights of this release are as follows: Change of the default logging system to journald Japanese Virtual Keyboard support and iLib upgrade Bug fix and improvements For more details on this release, see the release notes. Change…
