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We Were Wrong About the GPLs
an unsurprising admission in Conservancy v. Vizio
OpenWrt 23.05
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Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub
The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.
Krita 5.2
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
It's an odd-numbered year, so there is a new major Debian release, and we are now releasing the corresponding version of Raspberry Pi OS.
Wayfire 0.8
Hello everyone! It has been nearly three years since I last wrote to this blog. Fortunately, that does not mean Wayfire’s development has stopped! Quite the opposite, in fact I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.8.0. There have been many changes and plugin API breakages since the Wayfire 0.7.x series, so I…
Why is Debian the way it is?
Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It's thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of…
Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
Explore Paperless-ngx, the game-changer in document management. I'll take you through my adoption journey, Docker setup, and why it's 100 times better than paper filing. Say goodbye to paper chaos!
Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift
The ProbeLab team is working on a major refactoring of the Public IPFS DHT (henceforth called Amino) and a new feature which will accelerate the provide operation by several orders of magnitude. Read through to find out the details and how to get involved.
A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
Jellyfin needs your help to get better, so join us this October and beyond!
Loadsharers: Funding the Load Bearing Internet People (2020)
The Internet has a sustainability problem. Many of its critical services depend on the dedication of unpaid volunteers, because they can’t be monetized and thus don’t have any revenue stream for the maintainers to live on. Services like DNS, time synchronization, crypto libraries - software without which the net and…
Firefox 118
Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.
Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an…
Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer
In this episode of "Just Ship It," Evan You, the creator of Vue.js and Vite, discusses his journey to becoming an independent open source developer. His dedicat
Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. Should users be concerned?
Open source AI will win
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
Organic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics.
Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator
Meet Kargo, the open source continuous promotion tool from the creators of Argo that moves changes from stage to stage with GitOps, not CI scripts.
Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
The New Godot Development Fund
We are excited to introduce a major improvement in terms of funding the development efforts of the Godot Engine.
QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs
Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more.
86Box v4.0
Release for August 2023.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life
OpenSSL 1.1.1 series has reached its End of Life (EOL). As such it will no longer receive publicly available security fixes.