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Funds for Open Source
Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 313 posts.
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Gitlab 13.10 Released
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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OpenRA Release 20210321 (and new website)
Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
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The world needs a software bill of materials
“Sunburst” was the most sophisticated hack the world has ever seen. One of the most urgent lessons so far learned from the attack: we need…
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PinePhone Beta
I am pleased to announce that pre-orders for the PinePhone BETA Edition will open on March 24. The PinePhone BETA Edition is powered by KDE Plasma Mobile and Manjaro Linux.
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What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
Understanding the movement of ‘single source’ companies from ‘open source’ to ‘source available’ licenses.
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SQLAlchemy 1.4
The Database Toolkit for Python
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Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
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Gitlab default branch name changes to main
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".
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Wayland in 2021
Running Wayland on Linux in 2021
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Why I Didn't Open-Source My Second SaaS
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
tldr: Rust/coreutils is good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox and the Linux Kernel.
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Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
I've been running QubesOS as my main desktop since 2015. It provides good security, by running applications in different Xen VMs. However, it is also …
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Open source projects should run office hours
Back in December I decided to try something new for my Datasette open source project: Datasette Office Hours. The idea is simple: anyone can book a 25 minute conversation with …
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Joan Fons hired to work on Godot's rendering
Hello! This is Joan speaking. I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer, and my main focus will be anything rendering related.
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An early look at VLC 4.0
Early review of VLC 4.0 Nightly build, focusing on the new and redesigned interface, including tons of problems like bad ergonomics, low font contrast, decreased workflow efficiency, reduced responsiveness, no quick access to local filesystems, video playback in a separate window, and more
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Open Source in the 5G Stack
The NTIA has requested suggestions for a challenge to accelerate development of the open 5G stack ecosystem. GitHub's submission emphasizes open source best practices.
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Nextcloud Hub 21
Nextcloud Hub 21 brings a wide range of improvements in file handling performance with Files High Performance Back-end and important new collaboration features in Text, Talk, Groupware and Files.
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0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 24: “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha), …
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The modern packager’s security nightmare
One of the most important tasks of the distribution packager is to ensure that the software shipped to our users is free of security vulnerabilities. While finding and fixing the vulnerable code is…
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Wayland on Wine: A First Update
Proposed on the upstream mailing list as a new RFC (Request for Comment), this update contains more details and instructions for building and running the Wayland driver.
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
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Pine64 Februrary Update: Show and Tell
Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt. It is always a mad rush to complete ongoing work prior to CNY, but now that the festive period is upon us we…