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Elementary OS 6 beta
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,682 posts.
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Walmart Labs: Why we run an open source program
Over the coming weeks, we are publishing a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company has decided to run programs to publish, use, and improve open source software - and the benefits that result. First up, Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) with Walmart Labs’ perspective. Why would a company spend…
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Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated
31 years after the start of its career in 1993, it’s time for ext2 to retire. Here we are talking about the driver for this filesystem, not exactly the filesystem itself. Continue reading to understand the subtle difference.
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
An overview of the journey so far.
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The Redhat of Drupal
I got this email today: Hi Matt, I apologize for the cold email. I was researching Automattic , Inc. and wanted to ask you if there was any gaps/pains within your CMS and website. I work for the “R…
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BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS
At Open Whisper Systems, we often get emails from people who’d like to donate money to the project. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling donations is not always entirely straightforward. The fundamental contradiction is that while donatio...
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MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Read the post on "Announcing MirageOS 4.0.0" from our blog.
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Canonical Offering Blender Support
Blender's ecosystem gets a boost. Independent Blender LTS support and services for enterprises are available via Canonical now.
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Introducing Zink: OpenGL on Vulkan
For the last month or so, I’ve been playing with a new project during my work at Collabora, and as I’ve already briefly talked about at XDC 2018, it’s about time to talk about it to a wider audience.
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GPL Time Bomb – an interesting approach to FOSS licensing
UPDATES Following some feedback I am going to rename my usage of “Time-Bomb” due to potential negative connotation on the words. I am going to call it “Eventually Open”. Also a …
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Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
Defending Mastodon from Donald Trump's social media
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Kubernetes 1.16
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major ThemesCustom resourcesCRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and…
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Science Is Open Software
TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can…
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Who eats who in open source
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…
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Linux 3.15 Can Resume From Suspend Faster
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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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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Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub.
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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit
I imported the entire Linux kernel git history into pgit's PostgreSQL-backed storage. 1,428,882 commits, 24.4 million file versions, 20 years of development. Here's what the kernel looks like when you can just ask.
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Open Source Photography Workflow
Riley Brandt is a professional portrait, editorial, event, and wedding photographer working in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Open-source AI and open models reading list
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source
At Modular, open source is ingrained in our DNA. We firmly believe for Mojo to reach its full potential, it must be open source. We have been progressively open-sourcing more of Mojo and parts of the MAX platform, and today we’re thrilled to announce the release of the core modules from the Mojo standard library under…
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Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (2015)
The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. There are several notable things about this:
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Sun, Oracle, Android, Google, Mozilla and JDK Copyleft FUD
I have probably spent more time dealing with the implications and real-world scenarios of copyleft in the embedded device space than anyone. I'm one of a very few people charged with the task of enforcing the GPL for Linux, and it's been well-known for a decade that GPL violations on Linux occur most often in embedded…
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On Recent Controversial Events
Update in 2024 : You may have linked to this page because it's heavily quoted by a semi-anonymously published website called the “Stallman Report”. While the author of that document tried to contact me shortly before launching their site, I missed that email for a week or two. (I get a lot of email and as those of you…
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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.