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Firefox 60 released
Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment . This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to customize your New Tab/Firefox Home. It also introduces support for the Web Authentication API, which means you…
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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has…
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GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
We think of ourselves as an open source company. But today paxcoder on Hacker News rightly remarked that calling it an open core company is more accurate.
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I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig
I am fortunate to be one of those people who started tinkering with code in their teens, and then found themselves in the position where their hobby could not only pay rent, but afford a comfortable standard of living, even in New York City.
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Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
Like many open source developers, Ive been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread).
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Firefox 59 released
If you’re a regular reader of Firefox release notes (and thank you if you are!) you’re probably aware of just how much we’ve invested in the performance of Firefox Quantum . We launched an entirely new engine in November , made significant improvements to graphics rendering in January , and are continuing to post…
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Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to…
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PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine
The engine has been upgraded to provide industrial grade simulation quality at game simulation performance. In addition, the PhysX SDK has gone open source! It is available under the simple 3-Clause…
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SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source
The new version 5 of SubEthaEdit , the Apple Design Award winning text editor for macOS, is now available free of charge in the App Store and as direct download . The complete source code with history going back 15 years is also available under the MIT License.
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Firefox 58
With this release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by our all-new Firefox Quantum browser . We're optimizing the performance gains we released in 57 by improving the way we render graphics and cache JavaScript. We also made functional and privacy improvements to Firefox Screenshots. On Firefox for…
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Go += Package Versioning
More precisely, we need to add the concept of package versions to the working vocabulary of both Go developers and our tools, so that they can all be precise when talking to each other about exactly which program should be built, run, or analyzed. The go command needs to be able to tell developers exactly which…
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Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.9, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Especially relevant for users migrating from the recently discontinued HipChat is our new HipChat data import tool. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, an alternative to …
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Introducing Ghost 2.0
A powerful new editor, multi-language support, custom homepages, dynamic routes, custom structures and much more!
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Firefox 62.0 Released
Thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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A Rust-Based Unikernel: First Version of a Rust-Based LibOS
A Unikernel for Extreme-Scale Computing
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RHEL is deprecating KDE
By a strange coincidence the news broke this morning that RHEL is deprecating KDE. The real surprise here is that RHEL supported KDE all. Back in the 90s they were entirely against KDE and put lots of effort into our friendly rivals Gnome. It made some sense since at the time Qt was under a not-quite-free licence and…
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Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel components and tools
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern l…
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Godot 3.0 game engine released
After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, and many other…
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219 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA
Create beautiful emails, automate campaigns, and track performance. Try it now and see how our tools can drive your business.
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Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the (lengthy) release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just …
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A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
The Beav in all his geometric glory. Even though I have been using some Linux distribution or another pretty much daily for roughly two decades, I...
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