Open Source Stories for 2024

The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 16
Open Sourcing DOS 4 81
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 22
The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft 33
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
OpenBSD 7.5 Released 62
Databricks Claims Its Open Source Foundational LLM Outsmarts GPT-3.5 17
Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-based Browser? 55
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released 37
Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine 29
Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork 12
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Redis To Adopt 'Source-Available Licensing' Starting With Next Version 44
GNOME 46 Released 49
Grok AI Goes Open Source 38
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings 49
Linux Distributors' Alliance Continues Long-Term Support for Linux 4.14 19
OpenTTD (Unofficial Remake of 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe' Game) Turns 20 17
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default 75
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers 12
Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity 188
Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share 199
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Fraud Prevention Solutions, Supported By Gates Foundation 20
French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL 52
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source 20
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source 5
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
'Open Documentation Academy' Offers On-Ramp To OSS 4
Service Mesh Linkerd Moves Its Stable Releases Behind a Paywall 13
Bluesky Now Open To Federation 26
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License 12
VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships 15
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
Will 'Precision Agriculture' Be Harmful to Farmers? 61
AMD's CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm Is Now Open Source 29
Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' is Rebooting in 2024 56
Meet 'Smaug-72B': The New King of Open-Source AI 37
Bluesky Opens To the Public 62
Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker To Rival OpenAI's Custom GPTs 11
'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging 21
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Meta Open-Sources Its AI 36
Mistral Confirms New Open Source AI Model Nearing GPT-4 Performance 18
Open-Source Intelligence Challenges CIA, NSA, Spy Agencies 10
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
The Next Front in the US-China Battle Over Chips 87
What's Next for Mozilla - and for Open Source AI? 33
Jabber Was Announced on Slashdot 25 Years Ago This Week 32
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24

I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943