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Open Source Stories for 2016
Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94 commentsPostal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source 66 comments
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development 143 comments
FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released 146 comments
All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down 113 comments
LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI 173 comments
Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its
3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released 68 comments
GoboLinux 016 Released With Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool 47 comments
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation 6 comments
Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt 164 comments
Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project 14 comments
Linux Kernel 4.9 Officially Released 80 comments
Fedora-based Linux Distro Korora (Version 25) Now Available For Download 31 comments
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39 comments
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91 comments
Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 75 comments
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' BETA Ubuntu-based Operating System Now Available For Download 137 comments
Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images 47 comments
Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 338 comments
VM-Neutral Node.js API Unveiled, As NodeSource Collaborates With Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel and IBM 28 comments
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251 comments
Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways 75 comments
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller 101 comments
Open-Source Hardware Makers Unite To Start Certifying Products 57 comments
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299 comments
Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code 134 comments
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39 comments
Fedora 25 Now Available -- Makes It Easier To Switch From Windows 10 Or Mac 154 comments
A Windows 10 Alternative: Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS Linux Distro 191 comments
Red Hat CEO Predicts Open Source Infrastructures With Proprietary Business Functionality 53 comments
cURL Author Is Getting Tech Support Emails From Car Owners 141 comments
Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems 89 comments
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback 140 comments
Java's Open Sourcing Still Controversial Ten Years Later 89 comments
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17 comments
Open Source Pioneer Munich Debates Report That Suggests Abandoning Linux for Windows 10 176 comments
Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor 49 comments
User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked 166 comments
Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued 49 comments
US Government Launches Code.gov To Showcase Its Open Source Software 57 comments
Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code 176 comments
How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program 255 comments
NetBSD Project Releases NetBSD 7.0.2 22 comments
Is Microsoft Mainstreaming Machine Learning? 51 comments
Linux Kernel 4.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.8 77 comments
Fedora 25 Beta Linux Distro Now Available For Raspberry Pi 52 comments
VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched 75 comments
Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' 67 comments
Blockchain Platform Developed by Banks To Be Open-Source 32 comments
The Linux Foundation Helps Launch the JS Foundation 34 comments
The White House Open Sources President Obama's Facebook Messenger Bot To 'Bring the Gov't To You' 37 comments
KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! 127 comments
France Adds Source Code To List of Documents Covered by Freedom of Information Laws 25 comments
Cyanogen Gets a New CEO, Shifts Away From Selling a Full Mobile Operating System 49 comments
Physically-Secure 'ORWL' Computer Expands Its Open Source Policy 68 comments
FreeBSD 11.0 Released 121 comments
Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages 175 comments
One U.S. Election-System Vendor Is Using Developers in Serbia 83 comments
After 22 Years, 386BSD Gets An Update 83 comments
Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro 130 comments
Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights 50 comments
Google Releases Open Source 'Cartographer' 26 comments
BadKernel Vulnerability Affects One In 16 Android Smartphones 58 comments
Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi 91 comments
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop Officially Released 72 comments
Linus Torvalds Officially Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 95 comments
Ask Slashdot: Should An Open Source Hardware Project Support Clones? 117 comments
The Arduino Split is Over, New Non-Profit Formed 73 comments
Linux Mint Unveils New 'Mintbox Mini Pro' Desktop 70 comments
Yahoo Open Sources a Deep Learning Model For Classifying Pornographic Images 119 comments
The Slashdot Interview With Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO Eben Upton 47 comments
Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser 92 comments
Google Open Sources Its Image-Captioning AI 40 comments
Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? 186 comments
California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force 117 comments
A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go 173 comments
Netflix Releases 'Meridian' Test Footage To All Including Competitors, Open Sources Some Tools 40 comments
Google's New Angular 2.0 Isn't Compatible With Angular 1 121 comments
Apple Releases Swift 3.0, 'Not Source-Compatibile With Swift 2.3' 148 comments
Will Oracle Surrender NetBeans to Apache? 69 comments
Vim 8.0 Released! 125 comments
Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features 131 comments
Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft In the War Over Classrooms 55 comments
Run Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Your PC With Android-x86 6.0 90 comments
The World's Most Secure Home Computer Reaches Crowdfunding Goal 126 comments
Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google 118 comments
Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs 208 comments
Linux Kernel 3.14 Series Has Reached End of Life 99 comments
Ubuntu-Based Elementary OS 0.4 'Loki' Achieves Stable Release 72 comments
LinuxScreenshots.org Closes. All Screenshot Tours Released For Downloading 46 comments
Vandalism Detection Contest Sponsored For Wikidata 38 comments
Pokemon-Themed Umbreon Rootkit Targets Linux Systems On ARM and x86 96 comments
Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 178 comments
Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux 153 comments
QtCon Opens In Berlin 38 comments
World Map Shows Countries Requiring Open Source Software 32 comments
Penetration-Testing Distro Kali Linux 2016.2 Released 54 comments
Florida Man Arrested For Hacking Linux Kernel Organization In 2011 37 comments
Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? 137 comments
OpenBSD 6.0 Released 94 comments
Baidu Open-Sources Its Deep Learning Tools 27 comments
The Slashdot Interview With Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson 51 comments
Google To Drop Nexus Brand Name, Move Away From Stock Android 203 comments
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? 427 comments
How G.E. Is Transforming Into An IoT Start-Up 115 comments
Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits 238 comments
ReactOS 0.4.2 Released: Supports Linux Filesystems,
Ubuntu Linux 16.10 'Yakkety Yak' Beta 1 Now Available For Download 92 comments
Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails 569 comments
The Slashdot Interview With VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf 40 comments
Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday 110 comments
Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor 114 comments
Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool 541 comments
KDE Edition Beta Released For Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' 36 comments
Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? 515 comments
Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server 151 comments
Google Will Kill Chrome Apps For Windows, Mac, and Linux In Early 2018 102 comments
Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac 400 comments
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? 674 comments
New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix 61 comments
'GoldenEye: Source' Updated: A Classic, Free Multiplayer Game 65 comments
Linux Trojan Mines For Cryptocurrency Using Misconfigured Redis Servers 62 comments
Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions 204 comments
White House Releases Federal Source Code Policy To Help Government Agencies Go Open Source 61 comments
Apple Acquires Machine Learning and AI Startup Turi 14 comments
LibreOffice 5.2 Officially Released 103 comments
Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question 109 comments
Israel's SolidRun Creates Open Networking Kit Inspired By Raspberry Pi 76 comments
Seymour Papert, Creator of the Logo Language, Dies At 88 68 comments
FCC Requires TP-Link To Support Open Source Router Firmware 52 comments
Mozilla To Remove Hello In Firefox 49 128 comments
Onion Debian Services Are Now Available 40 comments
New Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Modular EOMA68 Computing Devices 122 comments
After New GIMP Release, Core Developer Discusses Future of GIMP and GEGL 117 comments
Facebook Open Sources 360 Surround Camera With Ikea-Style Instructions 31 comments
Linux Kernel 4.7 Officially Released 60 comments
EU To Give Free Security Audits To Apache HTTP Server and Keepass 67 comments
Cyanogen Inc. Reportedly Fires OS Development Arm, Switches To Apps 124 comments
First Open Source-Based Database Completes U.S. Security Review 49 comments
How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive 211 comments
Microsoft 'Patch' Blocks Linux Installs On Locked-Down Windows RT Computers 141 comments
AT&T Open Sources Its SDN Framework To The Linux Foundation 42 comments
Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor 50 comments
A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon 89 comments
Dropbox Open Sources New Lossless Middle-Out Image Compression Algorithm 135 comments
Tor Project Installs New Board of Directors After Jacob Appelbaum Controversy 106 comments
Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers 360 comments
Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows 170 comments
Researchers Find Over 6,000 Compromised Redis Installations 30 comments
Mesa 12.0 Released With OpenGL 4.3 Support, Intel Vulkan and More 24 comments
Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide 160 comments
KDE Plasma 5.7 Released 111 comments
Bulgaria Got a Law Requiring Open Source 62 comments
Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' Released, Supports Generic GTK X-Apps 98 comments
Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share 249 comments
Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit 62 comments
Amazon's Alexa Virtual Assistant Can Now Order Millions of Prime Products For You 57 comments
Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free 179 comments
Microsoft Will Be Largest Infrastructure As A Service Vendor By 2019, Says Morgan Stanley Survey 75 comments
Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House 213 comments
DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015 116 comments
Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover 70 comments
.NET Core 1.0 Released, Now Officially Supported By Red Hat 123 comments
Ubuntu-Based Peppermint 7 Released 74 comments
Sony Agrees To Pay Millions To Gamers To Settle PS3 Linux Debacle 232 comments
The New Censorship: 'How Did Google Become The Internet's Censor and Master Manipulator?' 246 comments
Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores 64 comments
Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project 35 comments
KDE Bug Fixed After 13 Years 118 comments
Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version 208 comments
Microsoft is Working On Software For The Legal Marijuana Industry 87 comments
Software Industry Has $1 Trillion Economic Impact In US 55 comments
Pinterest Acquires Team Behind Fleksy; To Open Source Some Technology Designed For Blind 5 comments
The Biggest Maker of Raspberry Pis Has Been Acquired For $871 Million 35 comments
Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question 281 comments
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? 222 comments
Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future 342 comments
Mozilla Will Fund Code Audits For Open Source Software 39 comments
Lenovo and Motorola Unveil PHAB2 Tango AR and Modular Moto Z Smartphones 25 comments
Microsoft Makes Minecraft Education Edition Available To Schools 32 comments
A Solution To the Security Guidelines Proposed By FCC For Home Routers 55 comments
Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD 247 comments
Google's AI 'TensorFlow' Software Is Coming To iOS 33 comments
Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback 129 comments
Biden Unveils Open-Access Database To Advance Cancer Research 42 comments
Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 227 comments
CoreOS Launches Torus, a New Open Source Distributed Storage System 26 comments
Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song 72 comments
Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use 141 comments
Ubuntu Phones To Feature Wireless Display Support With OTA-11 Update 31 comments
Microsoft Will Stop Spamming Android Users With Office Ads In The Notification Tray 110 comments
Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL 357 comments
NetBSD 7.0.1 Released 41 comments
CentOS Linux 6.8 Released 91 comments
Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor 82 comments
Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic 331 comments
Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware 51 comments
Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? 341 comments
Linux Advocate Suggests Using More Closed-Source Software 268 comments
Android Wear 2.0 Gets A Keyboard, Standalone Apps, Activity Recognition, New UI 31 comments
Google Turns Firebase Into Its Unified Platform For Mobile Developers 11 comments
Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' 24 comments
Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time 141 comments
SourceForge Tightens Security With Malware Scans 84 comments
Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price 84 comments
Linux Kernel 4.6 Officially Released 149 comments
Anonymous Begins Teaching Hacktivism on IRC 52 comments
ZFS For Linux Finally Lands In Debian GNU/Linux Repos 150 comments
Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo 83 comments
Google Devs Planning Flash's Demise With New 'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting 131 comments
Linksys WRT Routers Won't Block Open Source Firmware, Despite FCC Rules 113 comments
Dangerous 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Flow To Top Security, Software Tools 109 comments
Mozilla Fights FBI In Court For Details On Tor Browser Hack 58 comments
Google Open-Sources SyntaxNet Natural-Language Understanding Library, Parsey McParseface Training Model 56 comments
Opera Adds Power-Saving Mode, Offers 'Up To 50 Percent' Longer Battery Life 42 comments
Facebook Open-Sources Capture the Flag Competition Platform As It Encourages Students 13 comments
Italian Military To Save Up To 29 Million Euro By Migrating To LibreOffice 284 comments
Mozilla Launches Test Pilot, A Firefox Add-On For Trying Experimental Features 53 comments
NASA's Planet Hunter Spots Record 1,284 New Planets, 9 In A Habitable Zone 83 comments
Open Source Artificial Pancreas Helps Engineer's Son Survive With Type 1 Diabetes 104 comments
11 Years After Git, BitKeeper Is Open-Sourced 197 comments
Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support 75 comments
Unity 8 And Snaps Are Conquering The Ubuntu Desktop After Ubuntu 16.10 78 comments
DuckDuckGo Is Giving Away $225,000 To Support Open Source Projects 62 comments
No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government 154 comments
Devuan Releases Beta of Systemd-Free 'Debian Fork' Base System 293 comments
Almost Two-Thirds of Software Companies Contributing To Open Source, Says Survey 30 comments
Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS 58 comments
Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 144 comments
Software Audits: How High-Tech Software Vendors Play Hardball 162 comments
Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird 294 comments
Turns Out That Snaps Are Not Secure In Ubuntu With X11 133 comments
Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery 47 comments
Data Center Management Darling Mesosphere Embraces Open Source 19 comments
YouTube Introduces Live 360 Video Streaming and Spatial Audio 7 comments
Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens 68 comments
Open Source Headset Enables New Mind-Controlled Devices 42 comments
FBI May Be Hoarding a Firefox Zero-Day 99 comments
Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds 23 comments
Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices 44 comments
GoPro Announces Third-Party Developer Program With Over 100 Partners 15 comments
Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions 168 comments
Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay Or When You Reboot Your PC 108 comments
The Future of Firefox is Chrome 243 comments
Badlock Vulnerability Falls Flat Against Hype 21 comments
Facebook Announces 'Surround 360' Open Source VR Camera 32 comments
Academics Claim Google Android 2FA Is Breakable 48 comments
UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor 117 comments
Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere 185 comments
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