Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
Five years, 834 commits, and 24 major revisions later, I've just published the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps, a book which has now sold over 60,000 copies and spawned a popular free Ansible 101 video series on YouTube. Making good on my promise to make the ebook updates free, forever, I've published a new revision…
Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0
While the focus of Godot 4.0 Vulkan rewrite has largely been improvements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements.
The world needs a software bill of materials
“Sunburst” was the most sophisticated hack the world has ever seen. One of the most urgent lessons so far learned from the attack: we need…
What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical
In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical. […]
Building an Open Source Service
What does Open Source mean at Sentry? We're refreshing our commitment to open source and how we build Sentry.
Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
Today we announce Consul, a solution for service discovery and configuration. Consul is completely distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes and services across multiple datacenters. Some concrete problems Consul solves: finding the services applications need (database, queue, mail server, etc.)…
Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability
Work continues on the Wayland driver for Wine, with a focus on improving both functonality and stability, and on providing a more upstreamable patchset.
Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
`rip` resolves and installs packages from PyPI from pure Rust
ReactOS 0.4.12
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
Read more about the unique combination of software and hardware that powers the Sonos ecosystem. Welcome to our technology blog.
MLflow: An Open Source Machine Learning Platform
MLflow is an open-source platform to manage the ML lifecycle, offering tools for data preparation, model training, and deployment at scale.
Factor 0.101 now available
“Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee.” - William Kershner
Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer
In this episode of "Just Ship It," Evan You, the creator of Vue.js and Vite, discusses his journey to becoming an independent open source developer. His dedicat
Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
In the last couple of years, machine learning has opened up new horizons in a wide range of industries, with advanced use cases emerging: Facebook’s facial recognition, Netflix’s recommended movies, PrismaAI’s image style transfer, Siri’s voice recognition, Google Allo’s natural… Continue reading 25 Open-Source…
I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Within free open source software (and free content more generally), there are two major categories of copyright licenses:
Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift
The ProbeLab team is working on a major refactoring of the Public IPFS DHT (henceforth called Amino) and a new feature which will accelerate the provide operation by several orders of magnitude. Read through to find out the details and how to get involved.
The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source
The node.js community is developing at an amazing pace. What are the many differences that make that possible?
Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. Should users be concerned?