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FreeBSD from a NetBSD developer’s perspective
I’ve been a NetBSD developer for three years and it’s been my primary operating system for a long time too - on everything: routers, laptops, Raspberry Pis, PowerPC mac minis, Vortex86 embedded boards, and servers.
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Teaching open-source software in North Korea
In 2016, I went to North Korea to teach a class of masters students how to contribute to open source software . Here’s an image from one of my lectures:
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Tailscale free for open source projects
Tailscale is now free for open source projects using GitHub organizations. Enjoy up to 25 users, 5 devices per user, and more.
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Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres
Babelfish for PostgreSQL is an Apache-2.0 and PostgreSQL open source project that adds a Microsoft SQL Server-compatible end-point to PostgreSQL to enable your PostgreSQL database to understand the SQL Server wire protocol and commonly used SQL Server commands.
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Joan Fons hired to work on Godot's rendering
Hello! This is Joan speaking. I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer, and my main focus will be anything rendering related.
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Why Zulip will stand the test of time
Quill, a team chat company with $16 million in venture capital funding, was acquired by Twitter and shut down their product last week. Users were given a mere four days to export their data prior to deletion; direct messages and private channels could not be exported at all. Our sympathies go out to …
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Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
With companies taking advantage of Free and Open Source Software far more often than they contribute back, and harming users in the process, is it even worth working on anymore?
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Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley
Today’s show: How to quit your job and work on open source full time. This story has it all -- balancing side projects and full-time employment, building up enough supports to leave your job, and explaining quitting to your family and friends. And also: what do you do if your project succeeds, and then someone forks…
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Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
This talk will reflect on what GNU Guix has to offer to users and how it compares to other approaches—from CONDA and pip to Flatpak and Docker. Guix is not only a transactional package manager and declarative GNU/Linux distribution: it’s also an environment manager, a container provisioning tool, and more. We will…
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Elementary OS 6 beta
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
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Canonical Offering Blender Support
Blender's ecosystem gets a boost. Independent Blender LTS support and services for enterprises are available via Canonical now.
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Highlights from Git 2.34
To celebrate this most recent release, here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The first set of changes sent out ran lintian-brush on sid packages maintained in Git. This post is part of a series about the…
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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
I've built an app called Fork Freshness . In the process of building that app, I've learned some interesting things about how open source projects evolve over time.
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Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
My talk should be on in about an hour and a half from when I post this. A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will sketch out a proposal for how to…
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Opensource your abandonware (2010)
As you may know, back in 2007 I ressurected the development of GrafX2 . this old pixelart program, made only for DOS, was left out 6 years earlier by the authors, that had moved on to more modern computers. Today, graFX2 is amongst the best tool for pixelling, particularly on Linux or other alternative operating…
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FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report
This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between October and December, and is the fourth of four planned reports for 2020.
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Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs
Video blog on the five lessons I learnt in my life as a computer user, including when I switched to free software and GNU Emacs.
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Sequoia 1.3
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
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First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
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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Leaving Debian
Today's story is an insider view of Debian. One of the oldest Linux distributions and probably one of the longest-running volunteer-based open-source projects. Joey Hess is my guest, and he dedicated significant parts of his adult life to working on Debian. He's going to share what that was like. The good and the bad…
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Cheers to 10 Years
elementary OS rounds out its first decade
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Guix 1.3
Blog posts about GNU Guix.