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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 106 posts.

2013
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PhpMyAdmin Turns 15

The phpMyAdmin project was “born” on the 9th of September, 1998, when Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000 direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged…

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Debian 7.3 is out

Debian 13.7 was released on September 12th, 2026 . Debian 13.0 was initially released on August 9th, 2025. The release included many major changes, described in our press release and the Release Notes .

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Happy new year and goodbye bzip2

We started listing xz-compressed versions of kernel archives in all our announcements back in March 2013, and the time has come to complete the switch. Effective immediately, we will no longer be providing bzip2-compressed versions for new releases of the Linux kernel and other software. Any previously released…