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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
Today’s customers live in a multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world – that’s just reality. This world brings new challenges and customers need tools to make everything work together.
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Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Here we would like to share our thoughts about these issues and what we’re planning to do to make things better with GitLab.
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US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses
At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy (Update: the draft is not online anymore, link changed to final version). The policy requires every public agency to publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public agencies as well as the ge...
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ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge. Today, we are excited to share with you that we’ve just made the sources for ChakraCore available under the MIT License at the ChakraCore GitHub repository…
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PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
**7 JANUARY 2016**: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.5. This release adds UPSERT capability, Row …
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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
This is htop, a cross-platform interactive process viewer. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.
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Elementary OS
I’m not one prone to knee-jerk reactions, but I’m also not one to sit about idly without considering alternatives. So the first thing I did after the Apple ...
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Homebrew 1.1.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.1.0. We’ve had a great response to Homebrew 1.0.0 and been iterating on our work there. That 1.1.0 follows 1.0.9 is a happy coincidence due to breaking changes; in the future we may have e.g. a 1.1.10.
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MAME is now Free and Open Source Software
After 19 years, MAME is now available under an OSI-compliant and FSF-approved license! Many thanks to all of the contributors who helped this to go as smoothly as possible!
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PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
PostgreSQL 9.6, the latest version of the world's leading open source database, was released today by the PostgreSQL Global Development …
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Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to…
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The MIT License, Line by Line
171 words every programmer should understand
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Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
Ideen erproben - Offenheit schaffen!
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Gimp 2.9.4 Released
We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready MyPaint Brush tool, symmetric painting, and split preview for GEGL-based filters.
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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The End of Gmane?
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists thos…
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It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
GPUOpen - Our initial announcement from 2016
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BSD vs. Linux (2005)
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