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Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons
In previous posts, I mentioned that the even numbered release will be bugfixes. However, 0.6 is a bit different.
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Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
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Welcome, New Emacs Developers
Emacs switched the version control system from Bazaar to git yesterday, so now is the time to start hacking away at Emacs. Emacs: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread If It Wasn’t For The Fact T…
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From Gongkai to Open Source
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping…
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The CPAN Pull Request Challenge
If you join the CPAN pull request challenge, then at the start of each month in 2015 you'll be emailed a (somewhat) randomly selected CPAN distribution. You'll have one month to submit at least one pull request. You don't have to be an experienced Perl programmer, CPAN author, or githubber. The goal is to help others…
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Open Source Madness
The Yorba Foundation, a non-profit group that produces open source Linux desktop software, reported last week that it was denied tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. The group had waited nearly five years for a decision. The IRS stated that, because the software Yorba develops can be used...
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Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
What's the first thing you do when you find a bug or see a missing feature in an open source project? Check out the project page and submit a patch!
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Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014
Interested in coding on Tor and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student, we have...
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Handbrake 0.10.0 released
News and Project Updates!
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Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there…
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Debian is switching back to GLIBC
Five years ago Debian and most derivatives switched from the standard GNU C Library (GLIBC) to the Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC). Debian is now about to...
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Slackware is 21 Years Old
A blog about Slackware Linux
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Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Chrome is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. Netflix subscribers who already use Ubuntu can now watch simply by installing the Chrome…
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The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it
Progress in the software industry has been crushed under the weight of technical debt accumulated over the last 40 years. The tools, languages, libraries, and platforms we all rely on suffer from massive incidental complexities responsible for billions of dollars in wasted productivity. Anyone who spends any amount of…
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Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)
As you may or may not be aware, last year I left TV Tropes (TVT) on unfriendly terms. I may have been banned, but the feeling was certainl...
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Nitra, JetBrains’ research project for language tooling, goes open-source
We’ve been rather quiet about Nitra since our introductory blog post, back in November of last year. But we haven’t been sitting still. We’ve been busy building the foundations to a project that we wa
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How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help.
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OpenXcom 1.0
More platforms coming soon. For those making the ports, don’t forget to include the extra translations with your release. There’s also a Source Tarball available with it all included .