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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 242 posts.
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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.
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KeePassXC 2.3.0 released
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Nix 2.0 Released
Nix reference manual version overview
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Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection
A versioned Go command must decide which module versions to use in each build. I call this list of modules and versions for use in a given build the build list . For stable development, today’s build list must also be tomorrow’s build list. But then developers must also be allowed to change the build list: to upgrade…
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Go += Package Versioning
More precisely, we need to add the concept of package versions to the working vocabulary of both Go developers and our tools, so that they can all be precise when talking to each other about exactly which program should be built, run, or analyzed. The go command needs to be able to tell developers exactly which…
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What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications
This weekend, those interested in Debian development have been having a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about "What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?". I'm commenting on that in my blog rather than the mailing list, since this got a bit too long to be usefully done in an email.
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OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
I was a contributor for OpenStreetMap for a long time, and I advocated for OpenStreetMap for a long time, but the project has stalled while the proprietary mapping world has continued to improve in data quality. For those of us who care about Free and Open data, this is a problem. In this article, I explore the…
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Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)
Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask "Why not use Google Maps?". From a practical standpoint, it's a reasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter of practicality, but of what kind of society we want to live in. I discussed this topic in a 2008 talk on OpenStreetMap I gave…
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PostgreSQL 10.2 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 10.2, 9.6.7, …
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Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications
Here at Skylight, we love all things open source [http://www.tilde.io/about-us/#open-source]. We're thrilled to show you just how much we love it with some exciting news: Starting today, we're offering free Skylight accounts [https://www.skylight.io/oss] to all open source
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VLC 3.0 release
VLC 3.0 playing 8K 48fps 360 video on Android Galaxy S8 from VideoLAN on Vimeo .
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Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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The cpu_features library
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
To date, we've shaved the Bionic (18.04 LTS) minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and...
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LibreOffice 6.0 released
Berlin, January 31, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0, a major release and a dramatically improved free office suite, which celebrates the 7th anniversary of the availability of the very first version of LibreOffice. Today LibreOffice is more powerful, simple and secure, and offers superior…
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Godot 3.0 game engine released
After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, and many other…
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Firefox 58
With this release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by our all-new Firefox Quantum browser . We're optimizing the performance gains we released in 57 by improving the way we render graphics and cache JavaScript. We also made functional and privacy improvements to Firefox Screenshots. On Firefox for…
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219 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Homebrew 1.5.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.5.0. The most significant changes since 1.4.0 are deprecations of formula APIs and some Homebrew organisation formula taps.
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Bootstrap 4
It's literally taken us years to do it, but Bootstrap 4 has finally arrived! Words cannot begin to describe the elation the entire team and I have for this…
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Librem 5 Phone Progress Report
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Oil Shell: Success with Aboriginal, Alpine, and Debian Linux
Three months ago, in Roadmap #5 , I wrote that OSH will be a better shell for building Linux distributions . It will run existing code, including bash scripts, but it's stricter and easier to debug.