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Twitter's Vine source code dump
urandom talks
Prometheus reaches 1.0
An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
Hablog – High-availability, distributed, lightweight, static site with comments
High availability (HA), distributed, lightweight, static site yet with comments,with a responsive UI. These are a few characteristics of the ideal bloggingpl...
Gimp 2.9.4 Released
We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready MyPaint Brush tool, symmetric painting, and split preview for GEGL-based filters.
Our Handbook is open source: here's why
In this post we’re explaining the reasons why having an open source Handbook works for us and how it can help you.
Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool
Note: Portia is no longer available for new users. It has been disabled for all the new organizations from August 20, 2018, onward.
Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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BSD vs. Linux (2005)
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Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to…
My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project
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Dolphin 5.0 Release
Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in…
Cygwin library now available under GNU LGPL
Today, we’re pleased to announce that the next release of the Cygwin library (version 2.5.2) will be available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3. The Cygwin library is the core of the Cygwin project, which includes a distribution of the popular GNU tools and other open source tools designed…
Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
Elixir v1.3 released
Elixir v1.3 brings many improvements to the language, the compiler and its tooling, specially Mix (Elixir's build tool) and ExUnit (Elixir's test framework).
Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Go Debian: Writing Debian tooling in Go
As some of the world knows full well by now, I’ve been noodling with Go for a few years, working through its pros, its cons, and thinking a lot about how humans use code to express thoughts and ideas. Go’s got a lot of neat use cases, suited to particular problems, and used in the right place, you can see some clear…
Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database
Digital Democracy is now Awana Digital
PhpMyAdmin Project Successfully Completes Security Audit
Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates its phpMyAdmin project on succesfuly completing completing a thorough security audit, as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund . No serious issues were found in the phyMyAdmin codebase.
License update
Signal Protocol is a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems. We use Signal Protocol as the foundation for our own private messaging app, Signal, but also make Signal Protocol libraries available for other applications to use. Our Signal Protocol librar...
Open-Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework
Late last year, the CloudFlare UI team made a huge decision: to change JavaScript frameworks from Backbone & Marionette to React & Redux.
My open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone (2013)
Meet an open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone built with Arduino. See how a maker designed and assembled a working phone.