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Darktable 2.0 released
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0 as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksums are: $ sha256sum…
More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows
People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA . “It Doesn't Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”...
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Vagrant 1.8 released
Today we announce the release of Vagrant 1.8. Vagrant is a tool for building and managing development environments. Vagrant 1.8 introduces a number of major features and hundreds of improvements and bug fixes. The major features are outlined below and the full list of improvements can be found in the official…
PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Swift open source – let the revolution begin
It has only been a few days since the announcement of Swift going open source and the activity around the project has been incredible. When Apple revealed th...
DIY Laptop 64 bit ARM
Few weeks ago I blogged about the idea to make OSHW Laptop based on Allwinner A64 64-bit SoC. Today we received the first samples of the laptop plastic body. The quality of the plastic parts is ver…
How I stay happy making open source software
Over the past month I have become aware of multiple people either stepping away from open source or trying to figure out how not to burn out from it [1 [http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/08/throwing-in-the-towel/], 2 [http://ryanbigg.com/2015/11/open-source-work/], 3
Gimp 2.9.2 Released
We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It is another major milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, and scientists.
0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis”, the nineteenth alpha version …
The most popular curl download – by a malware
During October 2015 the curl web site sent out 1127 gigabytes of data. This was the first time we crossed the terabyte limit within a single month. Looking at the stats a little closer, I noticed that in July 2015 a particular single package started to get very popular. The exact URL was…
PuTTY 0.66 fixes security vulnerability
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Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix
I have been working on Open Source Software (in one way or another) since 2011 (just over 4 years since my first open source commit on a project). When I started writing open source software it was for fun. I was not a Computer Science/Engineering student. Programming was a hobby and open sourcing the code was fun and…