This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and…
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:
Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant…
Our core focus for the past month was on getting the manufacturing process and shipping of the Pinebook Pro, PinePhone and PineTime development kits back on track. I will not reiterate the events that led to the delays of those devices in this post, but if you’re interested then read the detailed account of what…
Mono has historically chosen to use the highest possible precision for all floating point operations. This means that both 64-bit math and 32-bit math were done with the highest precision available.
Tailscale is now free for open source projects using GitHub organizations. Enjoy up to 25 users, 5 devices per user, and more.
As some of the world knows full well by now, I’ve been noodling with Go for a few years, working through its pros, its cons, and thinking a lot about how humans use code to express thoughts and ideas. Go’s got a lot of neat use cases, suited to particular problems, and used in the right place, you can see some clear…
The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent guidance to our users about the current state of Wayland support in…
Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in …
Insights on running a Home Area Network (HAN) nearly completely on open source software, including configurations and metrics.
Another month, another Vulkan progress report! October was a busy month, as most of it was split between working on the new Global Illumination system and Godotcon/GIC in Poland.
Today, Red Hat has introduced a new Linux development model into the CentOS community: CentOS Stream, a developer-forward, faster-moving distribution that helps community members, partners and others take full advantage of open innovation.
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
If you're not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django's development, you might not know there's …
Open source Big Data in-memory columnar layer accelerates analytical processing and interchange by more than 100x. Forest Hill, MD –17 Feb 2016– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache…
It’s been over a year since I created the first version of my Ambilight clone , but I finally found the time to return to it and add some new features. I was originally planning on adding colour correction (to correct for the purple wall behind my TV) and output delay (to get perfect synchronisation with the TV), but…
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.
