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Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?

The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an…

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Why is Debian the way it is?

Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It's thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of…

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QEMU 8.0

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.