Open Source Stories for 2017

Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding? 60
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions 46
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Fleeing Google's Apps and iOS, Mandrake Linux Creator Launches 'eelo' Project 122
Court Throws Out Grsecurity Libel Lawsuit Against Bruce Perens 48
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? 751
Updated Debian Linux 9.3 and 8.10 Released 49
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
'24 Pull Requests' Suggests Contributing Code For Christmas 30
Is Open Source Innovation Now All About Vendor On-Ramps? 58
Understanding the New Red Hat-IBM-Google-Facebook GPL Enforcement Announcement 96
Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset 58
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
Clear Linux Beats CentOS, openSUSE, and Ubuntu in (Enterprise) Benchmark Tests 136
Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 336
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
Facebook Open Sources Its Network Routing Platform Open/R 28
FOSS Community Criticizes SFLC over SFC Trademark War 64
Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux 150
Proprietary Software is the Driver of Unprecedented Surveillance: Richard Stallman 197
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
Pentagon To Make a Big Push Toward Open-Source Software Next Year 99
Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 544
What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? 78
CopperheadOS Fights Unlicensed Installations On Nexus Phones 97
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms 181
Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool 106
Appeals Court Rules: SCO v. IBM Case Can Continue 131
Firefox Borrows From Tor Browser Again, Blocks Canvas Fingerprinting 92
Software Freedom Law Center Launches Trademark War Against Software Freedom Conservancy 113
Audacity 2.2.0 Released 103
Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions 133
Open Source Data Sets? Linux Foundation Introduces 'Community Data License Agreements' 31
MakerBot Launches New 'MakerBot Labs' Platform 42
Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition 141
Oracle Engineer Talks of ZFS File System Possibly Still Being Upstreamed On Linux 131
30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced 173
Netflix, Amazon, Movie Studios Sue Over TickBox Streaming Device 135
Companies Overlook Risks in Open Source Software, Survey Finds 132
How Open Source Software Helps The Federal Reserve Bank of New York 24
Security, Privacy Focused Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Successfully Crowdfunded 82
OpenBSD 6.2 Released 114
Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor 161
New Open Source 3D Printer Can Print Without Human Intervention 49
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Open Source Hardware to Tinker With? 134
Donate Your Noise To Xiph/Mozilla's Deep-Learning Noise Suppression Project 119
Best Open Source Software Identified By InfoWorld Listicles 63
The World's First Blockchain Smartphone Is In Development 95
Analyst: Enterprises Trust Red Hat Because It 'Makes Open Source Boring' 105
Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code 122
Facebook Relents, Switches React, Flow, Immuable.js and Jest To MIT License 50
IBM Open Sources 'WebSphere Liberty' For Java Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps 17
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Business Model for An Open Source Developer? 87
Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? 335
WordPress Ditches ReactJS Over Facebook's Patent Clause 72
KDE Plasma 5.11 Beta Released 59
GNOME 3.26 Released 176
Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach 283
Kodi Is Fighting Trademark Trolls 92
A Critical Apache Struts Security Flaw Makes It 'Easy' To Hack Fortune 100 Firms 42
Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? 188
TechRepublic: Mozilla 'Is Desperately Needed to Save the Web' 317
Reddit's Main Code Is No Longer Open Source 162
Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE 110
OpenJDK May Tackle Java Security Gaps With A Secretive New Group 79
Employers Want More Open Source Workers, Says Linux Foundation Study 164
How Open Source Advocates Celebrated The 26th Anniversary of Linux 99
Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation 97
Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? 483
Oracle Now Wants To Give Java EE to an Open Source Foundation 106
Crowdfunding Campaign Seeks a Libre Recording of a Newly-Completed Bach Work 87
AMD Confirms Linux 'Performance Marginality Problem' On Ryzen 120
Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens 307
Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? 408
GitHub Faces 'Major Service Outage' [Update] 39
Petition Asks Adobe To Open-Source Flash To Preserve Internet History 167
Microsoft Further Pledges Linux Loyalty, Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation 109
Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards 436
OpenMoko: Ten Years After 48
LibreOffice 5.4 Adds More New Features, Improves Office File Format Compatibility 111
FreeBSD 11.1 Released 219
How a VC-Funded Company Is Undermining the Open-Source Community 84
Debian 'Stretch' Updated With 9.1 Release 40
Mozilla's New Open Source Voice-Recognition Project Wants Your Voice 55
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) for Windows Pushes What Could Be Its Last Update 139
In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke 359
Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License 474
Survey Finds Most Popular Linux Laptop Distros: Ubuntu and Arch 141
48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected 94
Microsoft Makes 'Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino' Open Source 65
'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years 551
Linux Kernel 4.12 Officially Released 55
23 Years Of The Open Source 'FreeDOS' Project 123
Ubuntu Disputes 'Ads In MOTD' Claims 110
GitHub Urges Companies To Participate In 'Open Source Fridays' 71
Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed 137
Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux 181
Researcher Finds Critical OpenVPN Bug Using Fuzzing 47
'Stack Clash' Linux Flaw Enables Root Access. Patch Now 126
University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook 58
Opus 1.2 Released 22
Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich 139
Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep 608
OpenELEC 8.0.4 Kodi-Focused Linux Distro Now Available 43
Insecure Hadoop Servers Expose Over 5 Petabytes of Data 51
Ubuntu Touch Mobile OS Now Maintained By UBports 22
ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 79
Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case 179
Andy Rubin Says Essential's Ambient OS Will Be Open Source, Hints at Better Update Cycle 28
ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure 118
Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released 59
Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years 83
10 Years Later: FileZilla Adds Support For Master Password That Encrypts Your Logins 82
Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life 58
Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code 58
Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications 95
Open Source Educators 'OpenHatch' Close, Leaving Void For Campus Events 13
Open Source SQL Database CockroachDB Hits 1.0 80
Google Found Over 1,000 Bugs In 47 Open Source Projects 55
Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License 156
Debian 8.8 Released 65
Startup Offers A Chip Based On The Open Source RISC-V Architecture 73
Fedora Will Get Full Mp3 Support, As IIS Fraunhofer Terminates Mp3 Licensing Program 133
Systemd-Free Devuan Linux Announces A Second Release Candidate 122
Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi Voice Kit Hardware 31
Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released 55
Richard Stallman Interviewed By Bryan Lunduke 172
Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container) 66
Systemd-Free Devuan Announces Its First Stable Release Candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 372
States Are Moving To Cut College Costs By Introducing Open-Source Textbooks 123
Baidu Announces New Open Platform To Help Speed Up Development of Self-Driving Cars 27
Microsoft Acquires Container Platform Deis From Engine Yard 31
OpenELEC 8.0 Linux Distro Released For PC, Raspberry Pi, WeTek Hub 50
DeepMind Open Sources 'Sonnet' Library For Easier Creation Of Neural Networks 17
Canonical Founder Criticizes Free Software Developers Who 'Hate On Whatever's Mainstream' 374
Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code 149
There's A New New JavaScript Framework 70
USB Canary Sends An SMS When Someone Tinkers With Your USB Ports 40
Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex 45
Google Launches New Website To Showcase Its Open Source Projects and Processes 36
After 20 Years, OpenSSL Will Change To Apache License 2.0, Seeks Past Contributors 110
SAS Mocked For Recommending 60% Proprietary Software, 40% Open Source 161
GNOME 3.24 Released 118
IBM Unveils Blockchain As a Service Based On Open Source Hyperledger Fabric Technology 42
Popular Open-Source Audio Editor Audacity Adds Windows 10 Support, More Improvements 102
Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder 83
GitLab Acquires Software Chat Startup Gitter, Will Open-Source the Code 28
NetBSD 7.1 Released 45
Notepad++ Update Fixes 'CIA Hacking' Issue 82
Linux Foundation Chief: Businesses 'Will Fail' If They Don't Use Open Source Code 109
Munich's IT Lead: 'No Compelling Reason' To Switch Back To Windows From Linux 203
New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks 67
Message For AMD: Open PSP Will Improve Security, Hinder Intel 52
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? 140
VMware Affirms Open Source Commitment By Becoming Gold Linux Foundation Member 32
Google Open Sources Encrypted Email Extension For Chrome 44
Indian State Saves $45 Million As Schools Switch To Open Source Software 88
Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded 54
The US Department Of Defense Announces An Open Source Code Repository 58
GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides' 54
Linus Torvalds On Git's Use Of SHA-1: 'The Sky Isn't Falling' 203
Google Releases Open Source File Sharing Project 'Upspin' On GitHub 58
New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' 55
New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm 36
MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 47
MariaDB Fixes Business Source License, Releases MaxScale 2.1 17
Microsoft's Open-Source Graph Engine Takes On Neo4j 17
LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware 145
Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked 17
The City Of Munich Now Wants To Abandon Linux And Switch Back to Windows 557
Linux Kernel 3.18 Reaches End of Life 101
Android Wear 2.0 Is An Evolutionary Update To Google's Smartwatch OS 40
Pioneering Data Genius Hans Rosling Passes Away At Age 68 53
How Open Sourcing Made Apache Kafka A Dominant Streaming Platform 48
Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I 133
Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language 236
OPNsense 17.1 Released, Based On FreeBSD 11 39
Researchers Unveil First Ever Blueprint To Construct a Large Scale Quantum Computer 94
LibreOffice 5.3 Released, Touted As 'One of the Most Feature-Rich Releases' Ever 224
KDE Plasma 5.9 Released 89
Google Open-Sources Chrome For iOS 39
Who's Responsible For Accidents Caused By Open Source Self-Driving Car Software? 114
Wine 2.0 Released 202
Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? 215
Free Software Foundation Shakes Up Its List of Priority Projects 103
Raspberry Pi Gets Competitors 115
Oracle Scraps Plans For Solaris 12 127
Microsoft Adds Intel's Clear Linux Open-Source OS To Azure Market 24
Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? 501
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? 225
Debian 8.7 Released 124
Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World 133
Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 224
Hands On With the First Open-Source Microcontroller 83