OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Today, we are introducing the OpenSearch project, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. We are making a long-term investment in OpenSearch to ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative…
Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
Mozilla crowdsources the largest dataset of human voices available for use, including 18 different languages, adding up to almost 1,400 hours of recorded v
Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
I've had a busy week, so I didn't have time until today to read this news about Red Hat locking down RHEL sources behind a Red Hat subscription. I repeat the title: Red Hat, are you dumb? When Red Hat decided to turn the community CentOS distribution into a leading-edge distro instead of basically "Red Hat Enterprise…
My first contribution to Linux
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
2M users but no money in the bank
2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...
Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
Congress should invest in open-source software
Free and open-source software underpins the digital world. Federal funding should prioritize its development and maintenance.
Free the Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering aesthetics reminiscent of Midjourney. To play around…
Our lawsuit against ChessBase
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
PeerTube v3
Today we are releasing a major new version of PeerTube, our alternative to centralized video platforms like YouTube. Please note: La version Française (originale) de cet article est disponible ici ; Here is a direct link to the release, complete with its changelog. Wait... What is PeerTube? PeerTube is not a platform…
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
Since 2018, Babel has been doing a funding experiment: can full time work on Babel be sustained? We've learned the answer might be no.
ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
Update 13th July: The DMCA notice was rescinded with no further comment. Our landing page appears to be listed in Google's search results again.
GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA today announced the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote the standardization of Universal Scene Description.
VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GNU General Public…
I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-
Building an open source Nest
Inspired by the Google acquisition of Nest for $3.2Bn, the Spark team set out to build an intelligent learning thermostat in less than 24 hours.
PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
**7 JANUARY 2016**: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.5. This release adds UPSERT capability, Row …
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Bootstrap 4 alpha
Today is a special day for Bootstrap. Not only is it our fourth birthday, but after a year of development, we're finally shipping the first alpha release of…
PostgreSQL 15
**October 13, 2022** - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 15](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/release-15.html), the latest version of …
The Future of Thunderbird
"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.