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A letter to open-source maintainers
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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LibreOffice 5.4 released with new features for Writer, Calc and Impress
Berlin, July 28, 2017 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.4, the last major release of the LibreOffice 5.x family, immediately available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and for the cloud. LibreOffice 5.4 adds significant new features in every module, including the usual large number of incremental…
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Slackware is 21 Years Old
A blog about Slackware Linux
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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Fast open-source intrusion detection
The system, developed by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers, achieves speeds of 100 gigabits per second using a single server.
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software.
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Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was nowhere close to where it is today, so any progress on gaining more ZFS features in general Linux systems was very…
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Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Chrome is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. Netflix subscribers who already use Ubuntu can now watch simply by installing the Chrome…
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ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs
Cambridge-based processor giant Arm has telegraphed increasing concern regarding the threat from free and open source silicon (FOSSi) cores, offering
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The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
Anyone following my Twitter could have seen me complaining about things happening around Python build systems frequently. The late changes feel like people around the Python packaging ecosystem hav…
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Considering Sourcehut
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5
Discover how freight forwarders in Australia simplify shipping. Learn about customs, compliance, transport modes, technology, and choosing the right partner.
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Terraform 0.7 released
We've released Terraform 0.7. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching infrastructure. Terraform continues to be HashiCorp's fastest growing project. Over the past year, we've released over 20 minor versions of Terraform expanding resource and provider coverage as well as…
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The Shepherd 1.0.0 released
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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100 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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The Open Collaboration Tools
Weʼre unveiling a new open source project designed to connect with others and live-share your code in real-time collaboration sessions. Extensibility and openness are built into its core.
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Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark
I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so back in order to get a more recent version of SCons. 11.04 dropped me into the new “Unity” GNOME interface. There may be people in the world for whom Unity is a good idea, but none of them are me. The look is garish and ugly, and it takes twice as many clicks as it did before to…
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Thunderbird 115.4.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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I replaced grub with systemd-boot
To be able to investigate and work on the the measured boot features I have switched from grub to systemd-boot (sd-boot).
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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone
Huzzah! I recently received my Librem 5 (Evergreen) from Purism . The Librem 5 is a smartphone that runs an otherwise standard linux kernel. However, unlike Android which also relies on the linux kernel under the hood, the Librem 5 uses a GNU userspace, adapted for mobile. This makes it more akin to your typical…
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The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it
Progress in the software industry has been crushed under the weight of technical debt accumulated over the last 40 years. The tools, languages, libraries, and platforms we all rely on suffer from massive incidental complexities responsible for billions of dollars in wasted productivity. Anyone who spends any amount of…
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Haiku Beta 3
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2021 THE HAIKU PROJECT CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF BETA 3 Poetry is in motion. The Haiku Project, its developers and team members announced the Haiku operating system released its third beta release, version R1/Beta3, …
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Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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