Yesterday my colleague mentioned that a script I wrote was getting a lot of attention on Twitter. This particular project was something I wrote a couple years ago to help me out with a workflow. I …
Today we are very proud to announce the first public release of the Ghost blogging platform to the public. Following three weeks of intense testing after launching [https://ghost.org/changelog/launch/] to our 6,000 Kickstarter backers, today we are releasing an updated Ghost 0.3.2 to everyone
Today, on the two year anniversary of releasing Bootstrap to the world, we're shipping Bootstrap 3.0. It's been a crazy long ride to say the least and we're…
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source …
Sony, the company who created Audio CDs which installed a rootkit on Windows computer to try to stop people copying music has pirated KDE artwork. The preferences-system.png icon from Oxygen is on their Choose your Vaio webpages (next to configure) but impressively is also on the UEFI firmware should you boot up into…
[14 Dec 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.3 released [20 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.8 released [12 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.2 released [28 Sep 2013] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Wheezy — a complete Linux solution for your school [09 Aug 2013] Debian invites you to its 20th birthday [15 Jun 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.1…
The German Parliament, the Bundestag, has introduced a joint motion against software patents. The resolution urges the German government to take steps to l...
It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code. You can tell the changes have come during this short timeframe (5.5.30->5.5.31). The…
MongoDB → PostgreSQL streaming replication - stripe-archive/mosql
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[Editor's note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR: SourceForge, once a mighty force f
Back in December, I posted that we’re building an open laptop . The post generated hundreds of comments, and I was surprised there was so much interest.
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 25!
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Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the...
Dear Reader, No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in. Download…
As I noted last year , one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. The most popular codec, H.264 , is patent-encumbered and licensed by MPEG LA , under terms that prevent distributing it with open source products including Firefox. Cisco has announced today that…
My Sidekiq project isn’t just about building the best background processing framework for Ruby, it’s also a venue for me to experiment with ways to make open source software financially sustainable for the developers who work on it hundreds of hours each year (e.g. me). Let’s review.
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
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Today I released the next development version of Wireshark, 1.11.0. This marks a major change in the direction of the project. We’re switching our user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot…
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
