The U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering a new policy for sharing source code for software created by or for government projects. There’s a lot to love about the proposed policy: it would make it easier for people to find and reuse government software, and...
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
A comprehensive guide to publishing your video game as free software
Sovereign code infrastructure.
Between our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. Picture a bespoke Pi 4 packaged up neatly with some Python scripts, a little fancy plastic embossing, and maybe a…
In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, and MNT Reform. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta and generally available to developers with bank accounts in 30 countries and growing.
Today, the team behind Mender is very proud to announce the production-ready release of Mender, 1.0! Mender is the only open source (Apache 2.0) over-the-a
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Google has worked with the open source communities to build OpenTitan, the first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT).
For over 15 years, YARA has been growing and evolving until it became an indispensable tool in every malware researcher’s toolbox.
With the Istio 1.5 release we are happy to introduce WebAssembly (Wasm) extensions in Envoy, built with our long running collaborators Lyft and IBM. With partners like Solo.io deepening their engagement as well, we are excited to see the community and ecosystem developing around this segment of the open source world.
Riak's cloud storage software is now open source.
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Let’s look at some positive developments that will provide a path forward for Jekyll users.
DHH's Fizzy license blocks competing SaaS offerings, so it is source available, not Open Source, which has a specific shared meaning; the real issue is sustainability.
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Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with […]
