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5 Years of Pop _OS
Five years. Can you believe it? To celebrate, we’re looking back at where Pop!_OS started, how it’s grown, and where it’s going next. Thanks for joining us on this journey!
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
Ubuntu 22.10 improves the experience of IT administrators and enterprise developers with a particular focus on the IoT ecosystem. […]
Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
Clear upgrades, incidents, CVEs, and tickets with infra agents grounded in production. They run in your environment, and every change lands as a PR you review.
The Overflow Offline project
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia
Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Instead of checking the open source code, Google makes assumptions about our use of contacts in the Voys App, with dire consequences.
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
We are overjoyed and proud to announce that the Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source! We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year — after all, the company’…
Announcing KataOS and Sparrow
We've open sourced several components for our secure operating system, called KataOS, on GitHub, as well as partnered with Antmicro
PostgreSQL 15
**October 13, 2022** - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 15](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/release-15.html), the latest version of …
Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots
In this article, I present the Linux file system NILFS and its automatic continuous snapshoting system.
Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
The 4th Year of SerenityOS
Well hello friends! Today we celebrate the 4th birthday of SerenityOS, counting from the first commit to the repository, on October 10th, 2018.
PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools (2021)
This post is an attempt to bring together my go-to open-source PDF analysis and processing tools and commands for a variety of common tasks.
Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of describing it is, “Is the FSF’s demand for purity actually harming the users they’re striving to protect?”
Introducing NVK
Say hello to a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa.
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
An elegy for GNU and RMS
Assorted thoughts about rms, the GNU project, the FSF, and the future.
Stellarium 1.0
The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!
Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec
We are now releasing Lyra V2, with a new architecture with a wider platform support, provides scalable bitrate capabilities, has better performance.
Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 26: “Zhuangzi” (pronounced: /ˈʒwæŋˈziː/), the …
Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far & corporate greed takes over, free software is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the developer community.
Wails v2 Released
Release notes and announcements for Wails
Pcmcia Pico W Card
My fascination with PCMCIA cards was created out of “necessity”. Most of my retro computing interest revolves around networking, and I wanted something that could natively attach to modern Wifi networks without the need to maintain an old linksys router just for my retro computers. There are many ways to do this, I…
Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.