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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 143 posts.

2013
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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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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…

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Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide

In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with […]