Open Source Stories for 2013

Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation 111
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support 62
Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo 102
Open Source Add-on Rewrites the User Interface of IE11 86
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web 73
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs 62
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins 208
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap 199
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
Opus 1.1 Released 62
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework 48
FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later 27
Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation 100
Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) 141
The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu 346
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images 151
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio 197
Gartner: OpenStack Lacks Clarity 77
2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain 70
How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source 294
GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features 181
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134
MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 372
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement 208
WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years 147
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads 336
TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 104
Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software 109
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? 116
OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 111
Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC 95
Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? 223
GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 191
How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries 250
PHP.net Compromised 189
Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux 314
USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware 273
Freedreno Graphics Driver Gets PRIME, Render Node Support 14
The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game 98
Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats 337
How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! 307
Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' 419
Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights 361
Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior 394
Open-Source Intel Mesa Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.2 35
Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects 94
GNU Make 4.0 Released 179
Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source 160
South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software 185
Kickstarter For Open Source GPU 108
Milestone: The Millionth UK-Made Raspberry Pi 129
Chromium To Support Wayland 61
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? 193
Ex-Red Hat Employee Matthew Garrett Comments On the State of XMir 88
AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date 64
Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software 199
RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before 319
Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter 38
The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) 84
VLC Reaches 2.1 127
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source CRM/ERP System For a Small Business? 163
Frameworks 5: KDE Libraries Reworked Into Portable Qt Modules 68
Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? 631
NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau 147
Fedora Project Turns 10 83
Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches 38
Cyanogen Mod Goes Commercial To Make "Available On Everything, To Everyone" 230
A New Way To Fund Open Source Software Projects, Bug Fixes and Feature Requests 52
OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers 297
GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland 128
Open Source, Open World 76
How IP Law Helps FOSS Communities 98
Google Joins Open edX 29
How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project 176
New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" 142
GNU MediaGoblin 0.5.0 "Goblin Force" Released 42
PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account 443
SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora 72
Live Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski 98
Linux Vendors Push For Open-Source In Hybrid Datacenter Clouds 30
Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski Tomorrow 12-2pm ET 5
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? 301
Afraid Someone Will Steal Your Game Design Idea? 140
X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status 208
Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth 322
Valencia Region Government Completes Switch To LibreOffice 93
Can There Be Open Source Music? 183
Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released 99
VMware CEO: OpenStack Is Not For the Enterprise 114
KDE Software Compilation 4.11 Released 99
Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive 82
Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub 96
SDL 2.0 Release Improves 2D/3D Rendering, Better Audio & New Features 42
New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use 246
Google Posts Images, Binaries For New Nexus 7 80
NVIDIA Open Sources SHIELD's Operating System 83
The Open Source Laptop and the Golden Age of Open Hardware 93
Inside Google Ventures' Open Source Product Design Process 14
New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile 116
KDE Releases Calligra 2.7 30
German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code 228
Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics 160
Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod 40
Attorney Jim Hazard is Working to Open-Source Law (Video) 58
LibreOffice 4.1 Released 157
Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? 227
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features 238
Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels 52
The H Shuts Down 94
Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes 116
IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old 121
Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison 543
HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player 364
Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses 120
Open Source Tortilla For Tor To Be Released At Black Hat 68
E-Voting Source Code Made Public In Estonia 88
Can OpenStack Avoid Fragmentation In China? 42
Study Finds Bug Bounty Programs Extremely Cost-Effective 95
French Parliament Votes To Give Priority To Free Software 98
Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run 413
Progress On the Open Laptop 57
LXDE Previews Port From Gtk+ 2 to Qt 136
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds? 407
Interviews: Jon "maddog" Hall Answers Your Questions 31
Linux 3.10 Officially Released 157
XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source 86
DARPA-Funded Software Could Usher In the Era of Open-Source Robotics 17
When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole 224
AMD Overhauls Open-Source Linux Driver 126
Monty Suggests a Business-Friendly License That Trends Open 43
Rise of the ARM Clones 78
Interview: Ask Jon "maddog" Hall What You Will 26
The IRS vs. Open Source 356
Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? 311
Cumulus Releases GNU/Linux For Datacenter Routers 67
KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software 406
Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise 151
Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? 118
Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? 254
Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon 401
POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits 67
How the Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office 52
Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB 203
Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release 50
TreeSheets (Cross-Platform Data Organizer) Now Open Source 29
Clearing Up Wayland FUD, Misconceptions 240
Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 39
ESA Launches the 2013 Edition of the Summer of Code In Space (SOCIS) 7
Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG? 66
Funding Open Source By Donations: Lighting the Path 56
Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out 185
BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage 87
Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days 266
Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting 185
Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed 129
OSI President Questions WebM Patent License Compatibility with Open Source 37
Open Source Projects For Beginners 212
Happy Culture Freedom Day! 45
Patenting Open Source Software 60
Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year 155
Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past 97
The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks 94
Firefox 21 Arrives 246
Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind 347
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124
Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? 210
How Netflix Eats the Internet 303
80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights) 156
OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor 53
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released 191
Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType 77
Turbulenz HTML5 Games Engine Goes Open Source 27
AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's 147
FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter 85
New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source 182
KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project? 110
MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL 215
Fedora 19 Alpha Released 83
Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 133
Happy Hardware Freedom Day 35
Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? 75
LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete 291
Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May 226
Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed 630
OpenShot Close To Funding Final Stretch Goal: Video Editing Server 32
Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support 197
Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM 394
Intel Releases New OpenCL Implementation for GNU/Linux 60
Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project 62
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013 70
Repo Man Director Alex Cox Plans To Edit Next Film With OpenShot 105
KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making 129
Open Source Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL Stack Adds Bitcoin Mining 140
Crowdfunding Open Source Software Enhancements and Bug Fixes 46
OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement 39
Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released 95
Mozilla Introduces Experimental Open Payment System For Firefox OS 68
NVIDIA Open-Sources 3D Driver For Tegra SoCs 54
Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL 105
EdX Online Classroom Code Going Open Source, Uniting With Stanford 27
AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code 79
Open Sauce Foundation Created 95
Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood 252
Security Fix Leads To PostgreSQL Lock Down 100
GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267
Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153
The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals 58
MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB 208
Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing 114
Spanish Open Source Group Files Complaint Over Microsoft Use of UEFI Secure Boot 154
Apache CloudStack Becomes a Top-level Project 43
Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB 109
KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released 61
2012 Free Software Award Winners Announced 43
KDE Releases Plasma Media Center 1.0 22
What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2? 122
AirBNB Opensources Chronos, a Cron Replacement 72
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS 130
UK Government Mandates 'Preference' For Open Source 123
Modeling Color Spaces With Blender 35
Jacob Appelbaum on How OSS Improves Cryptography 35
Why Freeloaders Are Essential To FOSS Project Success 86
Trisquel 6.0 'Toutatis' Is Now Available 109
More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" 337
Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination 192
Celebrate Hardware Freedom Day 2013 22
Multimorphic Teases Open Source Multi-Game Pinball 40

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