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GIMP and GEGL in 2018
In this post, we are looking back at 2018 and then forward to outline future work on GIMP, GEGL, and babl.
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Why open hardware needs open software
As KiCad’s lead developer, Wayne, and his team have a big vision – to build a best-in-breed PCB design tool. It’s an ambitious goal for an open-source project whose commercial counterparts have seen millions in investment. But KiCad is well on that path. An ever-increasing number of designers now use the PCB design…
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Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust
Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust. Prince is a tool that converts HTML and CSS into well laid out…
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Red Hat Universal Base Image
There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? Well, first off, all of the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance
OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.
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Dolphin Progress Report for June and July
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go…
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Chef extends open-source licensing to all its software
IT Automation for everything from configuration management to continuous delivery.
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33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Discover 33 amazing sites offering beautiful free icon sets for web and UI projects, with options for personal and commercial use.
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Joint Statement on the GNU Project
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories
How bad can it git? Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories Meli et al., NDSS’19 On the one hand you might say there’s no new news here. We know that developers shouldn’t …
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Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous Improvement Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working…
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Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)
Hi, people of the future! Did you know that I wrote a follow-up article to this one, called “Further Thoughts on Wayland”? This original article was written in a more combative tone tha…
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Back from the Blender Conference
Yesterday, me, Dmitry, Wolthera and Agata visited BlenderCon 2019 . Intel had asked us to come to the conference to help set up the Intel/Acer booth, which was showing off Krita in all its HDR glory . After all, it’s pretty cool when a free software project has a real, tangible, technical, artistic first ! It was…
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Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library
Learn how to easily monitor scrapy spiders & validate data with Spidermon! Developed by Zyte Spidermon is now available as an open-source library.
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release
Ubuntu Touch is built in the open by hundreds of volunteers. UBports is their community portal — see how we develop, fund, and govern a privacy-first mobile OS.
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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
FatELF is a file format that embeds multiple ELF binaries for different architectures into one file. This is the Linux equivalent of what Mac OS X calls "Universal Binaries."
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Librem 5 April Update
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
Remember Clusterman? Now It's Open-Source, and Supports Kubernetes Too! David R. Morrison, Compute Infra Tech Lead Nov 11, 2019 Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post showing off some...
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Recap of the `funding` experiment
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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Ogre 1.12.3
Ogre 1.12.3 was just released. Typically we do not write a specific announcement for minor updates, however this one contains some major new features that warrant this one. Of course there is the u…
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Deepstream 5.0: Resurrected using MIT license
A realtime server for the modern web
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The Cathedral and the Bizarre
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. Douglas Rushkoff
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Gitea 1.10.0 Released
It's time for another major release We are proud to present Gitea 1.10.0 to the world. In this release, we've merged 322 pull requests https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:pr+milestone:1.10.0+is:merged . The list includes 97 features and enhancements, and m
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