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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,682 posts.
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The ClickHouse Community
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
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QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs
Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more.
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Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News:
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Reverse-Engineering the Mali G78
Collabora reverse-engineers Mali G78 instruction set and releases documentation, disassembler, and assembler for its
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How I've started to contribute to open source
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Brandon Hays called '“Why I still don't contribute to open source”:http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/' wherein Brandon lays out his reasons for not yet having contributed to any OSS projects.
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The Asymmetry of Open Source
A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk
It's my strong opinion that your company should avoid the Grsecurity product sold at grsecurity.net because it presents a contributory infringement and breach of contract risk.
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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same…
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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub.
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Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
The Twitter storm continues to swell and in response, we've had to upgrade, yet again.
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Requiem for GitHub
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform
Wikimedia launches a space for collaboration open to all contributors: phabricator.wikimedia.org. Primarily devoted to software development, this platform also welcomes non-technical projects. Wiki…
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Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It's now available for general use.
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I feel open source has turned into two worlds
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Enlightenment 0.26
This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.
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Librem 5 general development report – October
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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ReactOS 0.4.3 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows