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Richard M. Stallman resigns
The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning immediately. Further details of the search will be published on fsf.org.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 184 posts.
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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Blender Is Free Software
Blender is Free Software. It is free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, it is free to study Blender's sources and free to make new versions.
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Firefox 65.0 released
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
Mozilla crowdsources the largest dataset of human voices available for use, including 18 different languages, adding up to almost 1,400 hours of recorded v
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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
We're excited to announce that Sorbet is now [open source] and you can try it today. Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. It scales to codebases with millions of lines of code and can be adopted incrementally.
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Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
The Inkscape project has released a beta version of the upcoming and much-awaited Inkscape 1.0 on September 17th! After releasing two less visible alpha versions this year, in mid-January and mid-June, Inkscape is now ready for extensive testing and subsequent bug-fixing.
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Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Debian 10 “Buster” Released
[16 Nov 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.2 released [08 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.11 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.1 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.10 released [27 Jul 2019] DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced [07 Jul 2019] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Buster — a complete…
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Firefox 69.0 Released
As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default, strengthening the security and privacy for all of our users around the world. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Firefox 67.0 Released
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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CERN migrates to open-source technologies
Update: The name of the project was changed to Microservice Architecture on Libre Technology (MALT) to better reflect its scope. More information in this article .
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Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
In 2015 Cliqz released its own desktop web browser, forked from Firefox. Up to that point, we had distributed our search and privacy products as a single Firefox addon. In this article we cover why we thought it necessary to create our own browser, why we chose Firefox, and why we think it was the right choice.
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Firefox 68.0
Today, we release two versions of Firefox 68 — a rapid release as well as an Extended Support Release (ESR).
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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
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SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release
Yes, if you have followed our development a bit, that might be a bit of a surprise. But we have been asked why we don't call this release 1....
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PeerTube v2
Thanks to your donations, we have been developing a software to free us all from YouTube & Co for a year. Why have we gone much further than the first release, (crowdfunded in the spring of 2018), you might ask? Well, that's because we sincerely believe in the emancipatory power of PeerTube. This article is...
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KDE is adopting GitLab
GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.
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Chromecast Support for Firefox
A browser extension that enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like YouTube, Netflix or BBC iPlayer).
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The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
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Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs
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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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Bazel 1.0
We're excited to announce the first General Availability release of Bazel, an open source build system designed to support a wide variety of programming languages and platforms.
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PureOS is convergent
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.