The life and death of open source companies
More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
The New Godot Development Fund
We are excited to introduce a major improvement in terms of funding the development efforts of the Godot Engine.
StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio
Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source text-to-image consumer application that emphasizes the company's commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem. With StableStudio, users can help shape the future of generative AI through community-driven development and lo
COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros
Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.
Audacity 3.4
Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.
Blender 3.5
Viewport compositor, VDM sculpting, built-in hair assets, many lights sampling on Cycles, and so much more!
Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
Oracle underscores its commitment to helping keep Linux open and free for the global Linux community.
Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
Glimpse NX didn't have a great solution for missing menu, but this new 3D CAD application has
ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel
William Gropp, University of Illinois; Pavan Balaji, Meta; Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, and Hui Zhou (all of Argonne National Laboratory), receive the ACM Software System Award for MPICH, which has powered 30 years of progress in computational science and engineering by providing scalable, robust…
Rerun OSS beta is released
Today we're making the the Rerun open source project public. Rerun is now installable as `pip install rerun-sdk` for Python users and `cargo add rerun` for Rust users.
We need to talk about funding
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Towards a Reproducible F-Droid
A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKs with its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a good trac...
Haiku package management
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason never caught on elsewhere. The way Haiku handles package management and its alternative…
Low-cost open source device can measure air pollution anywhere
Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector from the MIT Senseable City Lab intended to let people measure air quality cheaply.
Wayland on OpenBSD
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A kernel update broke my stylus
In short, after a Linux kernel update (6.5.8-200.fc.x86_64 on Fedora KDE), I can't use the top button of my pen on my tablet. This is really affecting my digital painting workflow!
Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0
All original Dungeon Keeper code has been rewritten, establishing KeeperFX as a true open-source standalone game. Ownership of the original game is still and will always be required for copyright reasons. When installing KeeperFX 1.0, perform a fresh installation without overwriting any previous versions. Saved games…
GNUStep now has badges
Finally I got around implementing and committing badge support in GNUStep ! I think it is one of the fine additions Apple did to the origina...
Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source
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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
If you are reading this then you most likely know about the recent news from reddit. As a result of these events, Lemmy has grown immensely in the last two weeks. The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000 at time of writing. Suddenly Lemmy has become one of the largest…
Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
Free and open source software projects are in transition
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
Podman Desktop 1.5 has been released!
GNOME 44
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 44, ‘Kuala Lumpur’. This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new…
Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
Podman Desktop 1.2 has been released!