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How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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Open Source .NET – 2 years later
A little over 2 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as Scott Hanselman said in his recent Connect keynote, the community has been contributing in a significant way:
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OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs
OpenMW has been in development for well over a decade now, and it has become a viable way to play Morrowind on almost every platform imaginable. As a consequence, we have discussed possible future …
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Happy new year and goodbye bzip2
We started listing xz-compressed versions of kernel archives in all our announcements back in March 2013, and the time has come to complete the switch. Effective immediately, we will no longer be providing bzip2-compressed versions for new releases of the Linux kernel and other software. Any previously released…
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Open-sourcing Sandboxed API
Posted by Christian Blichmann & Robert Swiecki, ISE Sandboxing team Many software projects process data which is externally generated, and...
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way.
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Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy
I'm normally a fan of the rigidity within the Go toolchain
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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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Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns over its US origin…
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Ardour 5 released
Ardour 5.0 is now available for Linux, OS X and Windows. This is a major release focused on substantial changes to the GUI and major new features related to mixing, plugin use, tempo maps, scripting and more. As usual, there are also hundreds of bug fixes. Ardour 5.0 can be parallel-installed with older versions of…
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Threema apps are Open Source
In Celebration of Becoming Open Source, Threema is 50% Off
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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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Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to bring some helpful performance optimizations to our Vulkan mobile backend.
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Grafana 2.0 Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Apache Spark 1.0.0
Spark 1.0.0 is a major release marking the start of the 1.X line. This release brings both a variety of new features and strong API compatibility guarantees throughout the 1.X line. Spark 1.0 adds a new major component, Spark SQL , for loading and manipulating structured data in Spark. It includes major extensions to…
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How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure
Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security...
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Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure
How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.
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Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far & corporate greed takes over, free software is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the developer community.
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My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
Hey! Target reached: Bragging time! I mean, this is the irregular Emacs update … stats … report… thing… So, I’m gamifying Emacs development by setting myself a goal of…
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Highlights from Git 2.54
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
Not so much work remains to be done to turn /e/ into a desktop operating system. Using an /e/ smartphone as a desktop PC with an external screen, keyboard and mouse is already possible with good usability. Using an /e/ smartphone as a laptop is also possible with scrcpy although some minor improvements are still…
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Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.
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The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
Some thoughts about various payment systems on the internet and how viable they are for open source project support.
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Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project
Learn why we sought VC funding for our open-source project and how we raised $4.6M to drive continued development and expansion.
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Sequoia PGP 1.0 Released: The Seedling Is a Sapling
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.