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All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software. The country's government recently launched a one year migration project for all of its public...
Audacity 2.0 Released
Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public…
Shutting down a product? Open source it.
One month ago, we informed Copycopter customers that we would be shutting the...
Arch Linux turns 10
If you follow Arch Planet , you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch…
Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
Great improvement from my previous tile selection. I was actually still using the same tile selection code that I wrote way back in January when this started. Now there's a nice editor menu with tabs and stuff. The filters at the top and the sorting things don't work yet. All in good time.
How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code
Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects
The Case for a Git-Powered Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, for those of you that are not already familiar with it, is one of the single-most important community projects of the century: an attempt at creating a digital library of free bo…
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a 'covenant not...
New version of Apache HTTP Server released
World’s most popular Web Server powers nearly 400 million Websites across the globe Forest Hill, MD – 21 February 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced version 2.4 of the award-winning…
Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
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.
Square Releases Open Source WebSocket Client for Objective-C
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
Check out whats new and known issues for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]
Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in London, New York and elsewhere from Google’s IP address, the same address in India reported by Mocality.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
My third book