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Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide
In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with […]
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How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard
My Sidekiq project isn’t just about building the best background processing framework for Ruby, it’s also a venue for me to experiment with ways to make open source software financially sustainable for the developers who work on it hundreds of hours each year (e.g. me). Let’s review.
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French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the...
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VLC 2.1.0
Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license.
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Musings about Debian and Python
On a regular basis, I find myself the odd-man-out when it comes to talking about how to work with Python on Debian systems. I’m going to write this and post it so that I might be able to point people at my thoughts without having to write the same email in response to each thread that pops up.
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OpenZFS launch
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Postgresql 9.3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source …
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PhpMyAdmin Turns 15
The phpMyAdmin project was “born” on the 9th of September, 1998, when Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000 direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged…
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Open-Sourcing Stripe Shop
Follow the Stripe blog to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, payment solutions, and business initiatives.
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Cap'n Proto v0.3: Python support, better tools, other improvements
Moved to: https://capnproto.org/news/2013-09-04-capnproto-0.3-python-tools-features.html (GitHub Pages doesn't support 301 redirects :(.)
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Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise
I've spent the past few months developing a new build system for the 3.0 series of the Tor...
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How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen
[Editor's note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR: SourceForge, once a mighty force f
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Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice
The administration of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has completed its switch to LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity applications. Last week Friday the region's...
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Bootstrap 3 released
Today, on the two year anniversary of releasing Bootstrap to the world, we're shipping Bootstrap 3.0. It's been a crazy long ride to say the least and we're…
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Samsung's exFAT Linux driver officially released as GPL
Conservancy's GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers is pleased to announce its role in assisting Samsung in a recent public compliance issue. The compliance issue was brought to Conservancy's attention when source code of an exFAT filesystem driver for Linux was unintentionally released via GitHub, and…
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Bootstrap 3 RC2
We've just cut a new release for Bootstrap 3, RC2. It's a big release as lots has changed, but that should all be for the better. Thanks everyone who's given…
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Open Source Backdoor – Copyrighted Under GNU GPL
Malware code can be very small, and the impact can be very severe! In our daily tasks we find a lot of web-based malware that…
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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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