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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 100 posts.
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Eric Raymond: Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and why that matters
One of my commenters reports that he showed my essay on evaluating the harm from closed-source software to Richard Stallman, who became upset by it. It shouldn’t be news to RMS or anyone else that I think he’s a fanatic and this is a problem, but it seems that every few years I have to explain the problem again. I…
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Audacity 2.0 Released
Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public…
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Happy birthday Debian
[10 Nov 2012] Help us to release Wheezy : participate to our BSP marathon [29 Sep 2012] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.6 released [16 Aug 2012] Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday [13 Aug 2012] Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city [10 Aug 2012] Help the Debian Installer team: test the new version of the…
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Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
After years of hard work, the Simon team is proud to announce the new major release: Simon 0.4.0. New in Simon 0.4 This new version of ...
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Mono 3.0 is out
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software. The country's government recently launched a one year migration project for all of its public...
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Square Releases Open Source WebSocket Client for Objective-C
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Stripe open-sources Einhorn
Einhorn: the language-independent shared socket manager - contribsys/einhorn
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Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here
˅ GO TO THIS LINK ˅ http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html ˅ SKIP THE OLD INFO BELOW ˅ THE...
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Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software
Yesterday I received a new serious bug report against Mono in Debian. For those not in the know, “serious” severity is release critical, and can trigger removal of a package from the di…
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E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years
Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories.
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The FFmpeg/Libav situation
One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover , mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly…
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