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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 165 posts.

2015
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Fedora 22 released

We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions. If that’s all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download — or for current users, run the upgrade tool. In addition to the latest…

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Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern

Owing to its historic roots as a derivative of the original Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD), OpenBSD includes a great deal of old code. Many files bear copyright notices from the year 1980, and in some cases, even older. Although not explicitly stated as a project goal, keeping OpenBSD modern is an important part…

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Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu…