Open Source Stories for 2020

Ask Slashdot: How Long Should a Vendor Support a Distro? 137
In Jakarta EE 9 'javax' is Finally Renamed 'jakarta' 53
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone 85
Open Source Developers Say Securing Their Code Is 'Insufferably Boring' and 'Soul-Withering' 150
Google Plans to Calculate 'Criticality' Scores for Open Source Projects 40
Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model 79
Will Businesses Make 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 214
Python Beats Java Again in New GitHub Annual Report 54
Hector Martin Promises To Bring Linux To the M1 Chip 139
Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Case Fan To Prevent Overheating 118
After 17 Years OS X Notifier App 'Growl' Retired 17
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But... 246
After Restoring YouTube-dl, GitHub Revamps Its Copyright Takedown Policy 24
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders 71
$6 Billion Linux Deal? SUSE IPO Rumored 28
Why Apple Silicon Needs an Open Source Fortran Compiler 113
Linux Mint Introduces Its Own Take On the Chromium Web Browser 33
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Has Died 7
Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG 10
Wikimedia Is Moving To GitLab 12
Is X.Org Server Abandonware? 123
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Feel About Btrfs? 236
Debian Donates 10,000 Euros to Fund Free and Decentralized Livestreaming 20
OpenStack Foundation Transforms Into the Open Infrastructure Foundation 16
OpenBSD Turns 25 With a New Release 28
'No, Microsoft Won't Rebase Windows to Linux' Argues Canonical's Manager for Ubuntu on WSL 98
Has Apple Abandoned CUPS, Linux's Widely Used Open-Source Printing System? Seems So 120
KDE Plasma 5.20 Released 45
What If They Replaced Windows With Microsoft Linux? 239
Report: Google Plans to Relinquish Control of Open-Source Project Knative 7
Nvidia Unveils Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer 35
The Free Software Foundation Wants You To Celebrate Its 35th Anniversary 73
ZDNet Argues Linux-Based Windows 'Makes Perfect Sense' 100
Eric S. Raymond: Is Microsoft Switching To a Linux Kernel That Emulates Windows? 276
Emacs Developers (Including Richard Stallman) Discuss How to Build a More 'Modern' Emacs 172
Swift System is Now Open Source and Supports Linux 21
Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design 18
'Amnesia: The Dark Descent' and 'A Machine For Pigs' Are Now Open Source 11
Mozilla WebThings IoT Platform Spun Out As an Independent Open Source Project 4
Could Open Source Licensing Stop Big Pharma Profiteering On Taxpayer-Funded Covid-19 Vaccines? 81
Browser Extension uMatrix Ends Active Development 38
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches to Make Linux Run as Root Partition on Hyper-V 40
Where's the Yelp For Open-source Tools? 18
AWS Introduces a Rust Language-Oriented Linux for Containers 35
To Assuage Fears of Google Domination, Istio Restructures Its Steering Committee 10
'The Future of American Industry Depends On Open Source Tech' 45
Open Source Sustainability is Really a People Problem 58
Remembering the Golden Age of Computer User Groups 55
Rust is Strong, Creates a Trademark-Owning Foundation 57
Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Launch the Open Source Security Foundation 20
Microsoft Launches New Web Site Describing How It's Embracing Open Source 99
New Free Software Foundation Video Mocks Proprietary Remote-Learning Software 50
Security Researcher Troy Hunt is Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base 25
Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund 30
SUSE Releases Major Linux Update 27
Source Code of Covid Tracker Ireland App Goes Global With Linux Project 30
Open Source Proponents React to Google's 'Open Usage Commons' 11
'Will 2020 Be The Year Of Rust In The Linux Kernel?' 95
GitHub Buries Giant Open-Source Archive In An Arctic Vault 44
Metronome or Music Computer? Music Geek Tries the Raspberry Pi/Linux-Based 'Organelle' 41
Linus Torvalds Hopes Intel's AVX-512 'Dies A Painful Death' 160
Right to Repair Advocates Accuse Medical Device Manufacturers of Profiteering 55
Google Open Sources Trademarks With the Open Usage Commons 6
Nokia To Add Open Interfaces To Its Telecom Equipment 9
Linus Torvalds Likes His New AMD Threadripper System 44
Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' 63
Jakarta EE 9 Specification Release 'Marks the Final Transition Away From javax Namespace' 13
CA Governor Newsom Announces COVID-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools For 'Citizen Scientists' 89
Volkswagen Seeks Open-Source Approach To Refine Car Operating System 43
CEO of Open Technology Fund Resigns After Closed-Source Lobbying Effort 31
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67
Why One of Kubernetes' Creators Moved From Google To Microsoft 23
OpenZFS Removed Offensive Terminology From Its Code 504
KDE Plasma 5.19 Released 18
Vulnerabilities in Popular Open Source Projects Doubled in 2019 21
Microsoft Dropped for Open Source Again in Germany: Hamburg Follows Munich's Lead 88
How SpaceX Uses Linux, Chromium, C++ and Open Source Libraries 69
EA Releases Source Code and 4K Remasters For Two 'Command and Conquer' Games 41
Lenovo Will Pre-load Ubuntu and Red Hat on All Its Workstations 50
Should Maintainers of Open Source Projects Be Paid? 121
GitHub Warns Java Developers of New Malware Poisoning NetBeans Projects 45
India Open Sources Its Contact-Tracing App 23
'FOSS Responders' Want to Help Open-Source Groups Survive 8
Open Source Security Report Finds Library-Induced Flaws in 70% of Applications 44
Munich Says It's Now Shifting Back From Microsoft to Open Source Software -- Again 88
Check Point Releases Open-Source Fix For Common Linux Memory Corruption Security Hole 12
OpenBSD 6.7 Released 49
SoftBank Vision Fund Posts $17.7 Billion Loss on WeWork, Uber 29
Microsoft President: We Were 'On the Wrong Side of History' About Open Source 148
Addressing 'Design Mistakes' in Node.js, Its Developers Release JS/TypeScript Runtime Deno 1.0 62
Richard Stallman Joins Discussion About Changing Emacs' Appearance To Make It More Popular 153
Do Working-From-Home Developers Risk Burning Out? 77
Coronavirus: NHS Reveals Source Code Behind Contact-Tracing App 93
Inkscape 1.0 Released 68
What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source 64
Could Open-Source Medicine Prepare Us For The Next Pandemic? 54
Copyleft and the Cloud: Where Do We Go From Here? 40
Nvidia's Top Scientist Develops Open-source Ventilator That Can Be Built With $400 in Readily Available Parts 48
Boston Dynamics Open-Sources Health Care Robotics Toolkit, Sends 'Spot' Robot To Help Hospitals Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients 20
Programmer's Real-Time Deepfake Lets Him Impersonate Elon Musk on Zoom 39
Will Companies Cut Open Source Investment Because of COVID-19? 37
As Raspberry Pi Sales Skyrocket, Eben Upton Applauds Efforts of Open Hardware Community 41
Open-Source Electronics Maker Adafruit Switches To Producing Face Shields, Other PPE 11
'Abolish Silicon Valley' Author Urges 'Expropriating' Platforms, Making them Open-Source Public Services 250
Open Source Advocates Hope They Don't Have to Fork Qt 137
TIOBE Suddenly Ranks 'Scratch' as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language 57
People Are Open-Sourcing Their Patents and Research To Fight Coronavirus 17
Researchers Open-Source State-Of-The-Art Object Tracking AI 8
The Sandboxie Windows Sandbox Isolation Tool Is Now Open-Source 22
What's New in Linux 5.6? WireGuard VPN and USB4 33
Eclipse Foundation Unveils Open Source Alternative to Microsoft's 'Visual Studio Code' IDE 67
OpenWRT Code-Execution Bug Puts Millions of Devices At Risk 60
HPE, Intel and Linux Foundation Team Up For Open Source Software for 5G Core 11
How Devs Can Help Beat the COVID-19 Pandemic 40
Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source 54
Open-Source Project Spins Up 3D-Printed Ventilator Validation Prototype In Just One Week 48
FSF Plans to Launch 'Forge', a Code-Hosting/Collaboration Platform 40
FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Merging 94
The Linux Foundation Identifies Most Important Open-Source Software Components and Their Problems 29
OpenPower Foundation Releases a Friendly EULA For IBM's Power ISA RISC 28
'Five Open-Source Projects AI Enthusiasts Might Want To Know About' 28
KDE Plasma 5.18 Released 15
South Korea's Government Explores Move From Windows To Linux Desktop 44
Elementary OS Wants to Crowdfund a Better Distro-Independent 'AppCenter for Everyone' 17
Linus Torvalds Pulls WireGuard VPN into Linux 5.6 Kernel Source Tree 51
CERN Is Replacing Facebook Workplace With a Set of Open-Source Software Alternatives 18
Linux 5.5 Released 32
ProtonVPN Open Sources All Its Code 29
Coming Soon: an Open Source eBook Reader 46
Framework Developer 'Ragequits' Open Source Community, Citing Negative Comments, 'Very Few Provide Help' 122
EFF Defends Bruce Perens Victory Against 'Open Source Security' in Appeals Court 30
Free Software Foundation Suggests Microsoft 'Upcycle' Windows 7 As Open Source 59
Wine 5.0 Released 60
What Linus Torvalds Gets Wrong About ZFS 279
Another Project Goes Private: Amara Stops Being Developed As Open Source 61
Red Hat and IBM Jointly File Another Amicus Brief In Google v. Oracle, Arguing APIs Are Not Copyrightable 42
Tuxedo's New Manjaro Linux Laptops Will Include Massive Customization 17
CNCF, Google, and HackerOne Launch Kubernetes Bug Bounty Program 4
How Digital Sleuths Unravelled the Mystery of Iran's Plane Crash 172
Linus Torvalds: Avoid Oracle's ZFS Kernel Code Until 'Litigious' Larry Signs Off 247
Terry Cavanagh Releases Source Code For VVVVVV On GitHub 47
Huawei Unveils OpenEuler, CentOS-Based Linux Distribution 53
Linus Torvalds Calls Blogger's Linux Scheduler Tests 'Pure Garbage' 191
Open Source Initiative Co-Founder Bruce Perens Resigns, Citing Move Toward License 'That Isn't Freedom Respecting' 69
Linux Kernel Developers and Commits Dropped in 2019 37