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New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 301 posts.
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Music Production on Guix System
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks.
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Fast open-source intrusion detection
The system, developed by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers, achieves speeds of 100 gigabits per second using a single server.
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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone
Huzzah! I recently received my Librem 5 (Evergreen) from Purism . The Librem 5 is a smartphone that runs an otherwise standard linux kernel. However, unlike Android which also relies on the linux kernel under the hood, the Librem 5 uses a GNU userspace, adapted for mobile. This makes it more akin to your typical…
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Why is there only one Snap Store?
Snap and Flatpak are the basis of two universal app stores for Linux: the Snap Store and Flathub. Interestingly, Flatpak has multiple repositories: Flathub is the main one but both Fedora and Elementary OS also host their own store. In contrast; there is only one Snap store. Why is that?
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Worrying about the NPM Ecosystem
There are too many packages and too many dependencies, too deeply nested. Can we measure the problem? And what do we do about it?
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SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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Bootstrap 5 Beta 1
With our first beta release of Bootstrap 5, we're calling it on new features and breaking changes. From here on out, we're only fine-tuning features, bugs, and…
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ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light
A new release of ScummVM is ready. This is a thrilling one because we are embracing adventure games as far back as 1976! That’s right, the infamous Colossal Cave Adventure, the very first Interactive Fiction game, is now supported by ScummVM. Besi…
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Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.
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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 13 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant…
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Darktable 3.2.1
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
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Chef to be acquired by Progress
Chefs, We are excited to announce that Chef has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Progress. We expect the transaction to be finalized over the next 30 days or so and, once completed, Chef will become an integral part of Progress.
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Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
Aaron Stanard published a blog post about The Next Decade of .NET Open Source [http://www.aaronstannard.com/next-decade-dotnet/]. It's a good summary of recent conversations and there's a lot to agree with in the post. In particular, I agree strongly with this point: > If Autofac
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SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder
by Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron
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I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
I’ve been a software developer at EBANX since 2016. There we have a mechanism called Release Candidate. Every time we deploy something new to our monolith PHP system we end up deploying it first to the release candidate server. Then we elect a few random requests and proxy it from our live normal servers to the…
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SIMD Everywhere: 0.5.0
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first release of SIMD Everywhere (SIMDe), version 0.5.0, representing more than three years of work by over a dozen developers.
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Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters
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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Kubernetes 1.18
We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18 is a "fit and finish" release. Significant work has gone into improving beta…
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The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.
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OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…