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Dolphin Progress Report for June and July
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go…
Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
Today, we are very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve, enabling interaction with traditional Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR.
Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs
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.
CERN migrates to open-source technologies
Update: The name of the project was changed to Microservice Architecture on Libre Technology (MALT) to better reflect its scope. More information in this article .
33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Discover 33 amazing sites offering beautiful free icon sets for web and UI projects, with options for personal and commercial use.
Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation
Open-source animation tool will be officially adopted by Ubisoft Animation Studio in Paris to create series inspired by Ubisoft worlds.
Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
What is Silverblue?
You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.
Firefox 68.0
Today, we release two versions of Firefox 68 — a rapid release as well as an Extended Support Release (ESR).
Debian 10 “Buster” Released
[16 Nov 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.2 released [08 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.11 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.1 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.10 released [27 Jul 2019] DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced [07 Jul 2019] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Buster — a complete…
OpenWrt 18.06.4
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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Two years of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
We're excited to announce that Sorbet is now [open source] and you can try it today. Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. It scales to codebases with millions of lines of code and can be adopted incrementally.
Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous Improvement Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working…
OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution
OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent distribution and direct descendant of Mandriva Linux
Gimp 2.10.12
GIMP 2.10.12 released: free the bugs!
The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Blender Is Free Software
Blender is Free Software. It is free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, it is free to study Blender's sources and free to make new versions.
SaaS vs. Open Core: Which Business Model Is Best?
In the final part of this three-part series, we evaluate S-1 filings from SaaS and Open Core companies to determine if either model has an inherent advantage.
Storm 2.0
Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing.
PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 12 is now available for download. This …