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Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science
Funding open source software development is a complicated subject. I’m excited to announce that I’ve founded Ursa Labs ( https://ursalabs.org ), an independent development lab with the mission of innovation in data science tooling.
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB
FoundationDB is a distributed datastore, designed from the ground up to be deployed on clusters of commodity hardware. These clusters scale well as you add machines, automatically heal from hardware failures, and have a simple API. The key-value store supports fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. That’s the…
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New tools for open source maintainers
We're making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.
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A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer
Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5's VDO for storage optimization - save space, boost performance
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Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.8, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, an alternative to Slack, HipChat, and IRC. Zulip combines the immediacy of chat with the asynchronous efficiency of email-style threading, …
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ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?
I still use Subversion regularly, and quite often I use it to handle big files. Even after two years since the malware chaos, I still…
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Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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DragonFly BSD 5.2
DragonFly version 5.2 brings Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, significant improvements to HAMMER2, ipfw, and graphics acceleration. 5.2.1 includes a fix for CVE-2018-8897 , and 5.2.2 includes a fix for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665 .
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EU copyright proposal could undermine the use of Creative Commons licenses
Over the last few years the European Union has been working on revising its rules on copyright. But the latest proposal from the head of the copyright committee would deny creators the right to refuse remuneration — the right to share a work without getting paid — which could undermine the use of CC licenses…
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GIMP 2.10.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
GIMP 2.10.0-rc1: bugfixes, stability and polish
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Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
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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Introducing the LineageOS SDK
Your apps, better
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NGraph: A New Open Source Compiler for Deep Learning Systems
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A fork on GitHub is no fork
Github may block access to your repos and there is nothing you can do about it A few years ago I made a project with a friend and we collaborated on Github in h
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Private Internet Access Goes Open Source
Private Internet Access is the world's best open-source VPN, with open-source VPN protocols, tons of advanced features, and apps for all devices.
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AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub
Earlier this year we made the AWS SDK developer guides available as GitHub repos (all found within the awsdocs organization) and invited interested parties to contribute changes and improvements in the form of pull requests. Today we are adding over 138 additional developer and user guides to the organization, and we…
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Firefox 59 released
If you’re a regular reader of Firefox release notes (and thank you if you are!) you’re probably aware of just how much we’ve invested in the performance of Firefox Quantum . We launched an entirely new engine in November , made significant improvements to graphics rendering in January , and are continuing to post…
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Debian 9.4 released
[10 Nov 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.6 released [05 Aug 2018] DebConf18 closes in Hsinchu and DebConf19 dates announced [14 Jul 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.5 released [23 Jun 2018] Updated Debian 8: 8.11 released [01 Jun 2018] Debian 7 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [10 Mar 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.4 released
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.
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Futures of distributions
Seems Debian is talking about why they are unable to package whole categories of modern software, such as anything using npm. It's good they're having a conversation about that, and I want to give a broader perspective.