If there’s one criticism I hear more often than any other about the pi, it’s “ I wish my Raspberry Pi had a floppy drive “. It’s really shocking that the pi doesn’t have the ubiquitous 34-pin floppy header that we all know and love. How else are you supposed to interface your Tandon TM100-2A or your Teac FD-55BR or…
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th anniversary of Haiku. This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947. Architectures, ports, bootloaders PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It …
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
A curated list of underappreciated open-source creators worth sponsoring on GitHub — maintainers whose libraries quietly power the JavaScript ecosystem.
The final version of LibreELEC 10.0.0 has been released, bringing Kodi (Matrix) v19.1 to LibreELEC users. Users of LibreELEC 10 Beta or RC1 get an automatic ...
From the Linux kernel to Firefox and Wordpress, Open Source is changing the world for the better. But how to achieve financial sustainability when you produce something that can legally be copied, by design, at zero cost? Revenue models for Open Source A lot has been written about achieving profitability
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind.
An open letter from Atheme’s developers and community
Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office. Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s…
[18 Dec 2021] Updated Debian 11: 11.2 released [17 Nov 2021] Statement on Daniel Pocock [09 Oct 2021] Updated Debian 11: 11.1 released [09 Oct 2021] Updated Debian 10: 10.11 released [28 Aug 2021] DebConf21 online closes [15 Aug 2021] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Bullseye — a complete Linux solution for your school [14 Aug…
Networking and communication is something that has been on our minds as of late. As many of you are surely aware, we have started developing our own solution to private and secure peer-to-peer and group text messaging based on the PineDio gateway system, available next month. While we have high hopes for this system…
Do you ever get the feeling that you are always a consumer and never a contributor to a library? Would you like to get more involved in open source projects and don’t know how? This is the&nb…
Pixie Blog
Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up in our priorities list, and devote more time to it. Below I'll…
Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.1.0 release. This release contains 3000+ commits from 221 authors.
Nomad 1.1 delivers more than 10 new features to enable more flexible scheduling and a simplified operator experience.
There is no shortage of package managers. Each tool makes its own set of tradeoffs regarding speed, ease of use, customizability, and reproducibility. Guix occupies a sweet spot, providing reproducibility by design as pioneered by Nix , package customization à la Spack from the command line, the ability to create…
Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".
