Taking a month off from OSS volunteering
On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I spent absolutely zero time helping any project outside of work (so no evenings, no weekends). This was the first
Vue in 2016
It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…
Haiku booting in UEFI mode
As some may have noticed, my UEFI branch got merged in November, purely by accident too! However, until now, we still haven't been able to boot to the desktop. Whilst still in development, the addition of a simple framebuffer driver and a crucial fix …
LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
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Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom
When I think about what makes SageMath different, one of the most fundamental things is that it was created by people who use it every d...
Big News for ZFS on Linux
Canonical announced a few weeks ago that ZFS will be included in the next release of Ubuntu Linux, on by default and fully supported. And it’s no exaggeration…
Atom 1.11
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
Dolphin 5.0 Release
Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in…
What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative
The open-source community is essential to Mattermost. Join thousands of contributors, customers, and users to build & share together.
Roundcube Webmail 1.2.0 released with PGP support
Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP
Qt Licensing Changes
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support
Posted by Derek Murray, Software EngineerGoogle uses machine learning across a wide range of its products. In order to continually improve our mode...
TrailDB – An Efficient Library for Storing and Processing Event Data
Today, we are open-sourcing TrailDB, a core library powering AdRoll. TrailDB makes it fast and fun to handle event data.
Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
By Mike Aizatsky, Kostya Serebryany (Software Engineers, Dynamic Tools); Oliver Chang, Abhishek Arya (Security Engineers, Google Chrome); an...
VeraCrypt to be audited
OSTIF is proud to announce that we have come to an agreement to fully fund an audit of VeraCrypt. Using funds that were donated by DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN , we plan to hire QuarksLab to go over the code and search for vulnerabilities and backdoors.
ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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PhpMyAdmin Project Successfully Completes Security Audit
Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates its phpMyAdmin project on succesfuly completing completing a thorough security audit, as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund . No serious issues were found in the phyMyAdmin codebase.
FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
Darktable 2.2.0 released
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the sha256 checksum is…
Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware
Freeing my tablet (Android hacking, SW and HW)
Grafana 3.0 Stable Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
Let’s make software even better.
Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
You can now install a GSM network using apt-get
This is great news: You can now install a GSM network using apt-get! Thanks to the efforts of Debian developer Ruben Undheim, there's now an OpenBSC (with all its flavors like OsmoBSC, OsmoNITB, OsmoS
Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.