November 2022 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
LibGen's Bloat Problem
Edit: I feel compelled to make a small clarification; I'm not arguing for purging all files greater than X MiB (even though I still think LibGen has a non-negligible amount of junk and duplicate content but neither are easy to remove without significant manpower and LibGen lacks mechanisms to crowdsource the work)…
MDN converted to Markdown
Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on this documentation as critical digital infrastructure, and we work cooperatively to ensure its long-term success and…
Our Roadmap for Nix
Tweag’s Nix team plans for the coming years
GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week
0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 26: “Zhuangzi” (pronounced: /ˈʒwæŋˈziː/), the …
Serenity OS: Interview
How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP. But actually, it is possible to build an operating system from scratch. My guest is doing it. Andreas Kling…
The Overflow Offline project
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia
Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
Sind Container-Images, Docker und Kubernetes keine Fremdwörter für Dich? Hast Du gehört, Docker sei tot? Dieser technische Blog Post hilft, Gerüchte aufzuklären.
In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model
Who's the customer, anyway?
Wails v2 Released
Release notes and announcements for Wails
An elegy for GNU and RMS
Assorted thoughts about rms, the GNU project, the FSF, and the future.
PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead
The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene.
Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement
For Immediate Release — IRVINE, CA, USA — Software Freedom Conservancy announces it has succeeded in federal court with its motion to have its lawsuit against Vizio, Inc. remanded back to Superior Court in Orange County, California. Vizio, Inc. previously filed a request to “remove” the case from California State…
FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
FPGA toolchains are not trivial, but roughly speaking, you can divide the process of “compiling” FPGA-targeted code in a Hardware Description Language
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
Debian and firmware
TL;DR : firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. See the "My preference, and rationale" Section below.
Faker.js is now a community controlled project
Generate massive amounts of fake (but reasonable) data for testing and development.
Home Assistant OS Release 8
Now using GRUB2 for UEFI-based systems, Home Assistant Yellow support, and support for UEFI-based AArch64 systems!
Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use
Arti 1.0.0 is released and ready for download.
20×10%
Hi! It feels like I did one of these posts just the other day, but it was a month ago? Time sure does fly… Since there’s a round number in the title of this blog post, perhaps I should …
Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0
On top of the existing fixed-function fog, Godot 4.0 introduces a new type of fog: Volumetric Fog. For the 4.0 release, we decided to take Volumetric Fog one step further with the addition of FogVolumes. These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders.
Making IRC better
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Congratulations: We now have opinions on your open source contributions
More thoughts on supply chain and package managers.