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The guide to software development with Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 311 posts.
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I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to
Exposing the dark side of GitHub and open source projects
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Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project by Lukas Henkel
Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult.
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Zulip 7.0: Threaded open-source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 7.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed to help people collaborate to solve any challenge. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous …
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RISE: Accelerate the development of open source software for RISC-V
Enabling commercial-ready software for application processors using RISC-V architecture for segments including mobile, consumer electronics, datacenter, and automotive
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I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)
(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works) Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django. It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you. My use case for the library, django-money eventually faded, but it…
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WP20 and Audrey Scholars
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four freedoms of the GPL combined…
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The brand new Thunderbird logo
We asked Jon Hicks, creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of our exciting future.
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Google open-sources Rust crate audits
We hope that by sharing our work with the open-source community, we can make the Rust ecosystem even safer and more secure for everyone.
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
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Arch Linux: Git migration completed
Package sources are now available on GitLab . Note that the bugtracker is still flyspray and that merge requests are not accepted as of now. We intend to open the issue tracker and merge requests on the Gitlab package repos in the near future.
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20 Years of Gentoo
Let’s see how Gentoo is doing these days. Below is a plot of Gentoo’s rankings on DistroWatch :
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European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects
Europe’s standards bodies have no functional relationships with Open Source charities and do not consult them.
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StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio
Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source text-to-image consumer application that emphasizes the company's commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem. With StableStudio, users can help shape the future of generative AI through community-driven development and lo
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Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will explain. When I talk about a model, I'm talking about a huggingface…
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel
William Gropp, University of Illinois; Pavan Balaji, Meta; Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, and Hui Zhou (all of Argonne National Laboratory), receive the ACM Software System Award for MPICH, which has powered 30 years of progress in computational science and engineering by providing scalable, robust…
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MosaicML MPT-7B: A Commercially-Usable LLaMa-Quality Model
Introducing MPT-7B, the first entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention…
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Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
GitHub is dominant in today’s software development industry. Most professional developers interact with software created, maintained, or controlled by GitHub daily.
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F-Droid Security Issues
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software. F-Droid is often recommended among security and privacy enthusiasts, but how does it stack up against Play Store in practice? This write-up will attempt to emphasize major…
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GCC 13 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 13. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 13 page and the full GCC documentation .
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
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QEMU 8.0
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.