OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family
On 1 June 2011, Oracle Corporation submitted the OpenOffice.org code base to The Apache Software Foundation. That submission was accepted, and the project is now being developed as a podling in the Apache Incubator under the ASF’s meritocratic process informally dubbed "The Apache Way". OpenOffice.org is now…
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.
ReactOS (Free and Open Source Windows): Jérôme Gardou hired to work full-time
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
ReactOS 0.4.16
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Debian 7.4 Released
[20 Oct 2014] The Debian Project mourns the loss of Peter Miller [18 Oct 2014] Updated Debian 7: 7.7 released [14 Oct 2014] Debian Project chooses LeaseWeb to provide global snapshot archive [08 Sep 2014] FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need [31 Aug 2014] DebConf 14 closes…
Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Surround 360 is now open source
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PeerTube 5.1
Version 5.1 of PeerTube has been released! On the menu: moderation of account creation, a button to resume live broadcasting, improved management of e...
GCC 4.9.0 released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux
LibreOffice 5.1.5 “still” announced, for enterprise class deployments Berlin, August 3, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.2, a feature-rich major release of the best free office suite ever created – targeted to early adopters and power users – with several user interface improvements and…
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.
A New Chapter for PyPy
PyPy winds down its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy Conservancy and PyPy's great work together PyPy joined Conservancy ...
Rust Analyzer: Next few years
rust-analyzer is a new
EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
European Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from large, centralized cloud solutions.
Debian port for RISC-V 64-bit
This is a post describing my involvement with the Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V (unofficial and not endorsed by Debian at the moment) and announcing the availability of the repository (still very much WIP) with packages built for this architecture. If not interested in the story but you want to check the…
Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard
Sequoia 1.3
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
Open source software is the foundation of much of our digital infrastructure. However, is AI undermining the incentive structure? What needs to change?
Layout 2013 and Layout 2020
Overview of the effort to rewrite Servo’s layout engine, and our proposal for layout in Servo going forward.
GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Sovereign code infrastructure.