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Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure” released
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 301 posts.
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Bootstrap 5 alpha
Bootstrap 5's very first alpha has arrived! We've been working hard for several months to refine the work we started in v4, and while we're feeling great about…
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PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Third-Party Audit of Rustls
In May and June 2020, Cure53 completed an audit of ring , webpki , and rustls . Their report ( PDF ) fully describes the audit, and makes for interesting reading.
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Gimp 2.10.20
“GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.”
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MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
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Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
After almost 2 years since R1/beta1, Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download …
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With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run Wayland compositors with zero-copy graphics, including GNOME 3.
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Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
I congratulate the Linux Mint team for clearly taking a stand against snaps today by removing it from their repository, it was something m...
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How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration.
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Xfce switches to GitLab
Starting today, May 1, we’re switching from our cgit/gitolite setup to GitLab. Our old server, git.xfce.org, is now a ready-only in-sync mirror (so you can still pull code). Our new server is gitlab.xfce.org.
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Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework
For the past little while – OK, long while – I’ve been working on a custom game engine in C++. Today, I’m releasing part of that game engine as an open …
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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GitLab 13.0
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Rust Analyzer: Next few years
rust-analyzer is a new
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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 13 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
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Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games
Defold is a free to use, source available, game engine with a developer-friendly license. Defold is owned and developed by the Defold Foundation.
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It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
That half-finished thing you threw on PyPI and forgot about? The world is genuinely slightly better for it existing.
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OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
I used OpenBSD on the original Surface Go back in 2018 and many things worked with the big exception of the internal Atheros WiFi. This meant I had to keep it tethered to a USB-C dock for Ethernet or use a small USB-A WiFi dongle plugged into a less-than-small USB-A-to-USB-C adapter.
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The PeerTube content bootstrap fund
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More
With the PinePhone and Pinebook Pro production well under way and shipping in just a few days time, we’ll now be turning our attention to the other projects we have in the pipeline. There is a fair bit of material to cover this month - the main piece of news, however, is that we’ll be taking pre-orders for the PineTab…
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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Hyperdrive is now faster and more reliable. Plus it comes with a daemon.
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The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
Today we are announcing that the Eclipse Foundation is transitioning itself to become a European-based organization, specifically a Belgian international nonprofit association. I wanted to take thi…