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SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review

SerenityOS is a from-scratch desktop operating system that combines a Unix-like core with the look&feel of 1990s productivity software. It's written in modern C++ and goes all the way from kernel to web browser. The project aims to build everything in-house instead of relying on third-party libraries.

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20×10%

Hi! It feels like I did one of these posts just the other day, but it was a month ago? Time sure does fly… Since there’s a round number in the title of this blog post, perhaps I should …

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GitHub and the crime against software

An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.

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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads

PortableApps.com has hit the 1 billion portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 1,000,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users in dozens of languages all over the world. All of the 1 billion portable apps served from PortableApps.com were freeware or open source software which run on our open source, free…

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Krita 5.2

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

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Transparent telemetry for open-source projects

How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry , which means software sending data to answer those questions back to a collection server. This post is about why I believe telemetry is important for…

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PINE64 December Update

Welcome to the last community update of the year. I want to start this month’s update by thanking everyone who helped us make this challenging year a fruitful and successful one. A special thanks goes to the core community team - our mods and admins - who keep the cogs spinning on a daily basis. Marek (gamiee) and…