Open Source Stories for 2012

Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? 65
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released 59
Qt 5.0 Released 161
Open-Source Hardware Hacker Ladyada Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 56
Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software? 57
Blender 2.65 Released 93
Dell Announces Private Cloud Built On OpenStack 14
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
Linux 3.7 Released 151
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server 303
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? 371
For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business 33
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle 289
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 76
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) 218
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version 403
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? 287
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift 83
Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company 451
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 217
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts 197
Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation 197
Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Gentoo Developers Fork udev 152
Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design 69
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer 111
Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches 104
Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market 67
BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 117
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Facebook's Corona: When Hadoop MapReduce Wasn't Enough 42
AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers 94
Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model, Says Rackspace CTO 42
Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser 150
Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions 52
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Navigating the Vast Ocean of Open Source 23
UK Takes Huge Step Forward On Open Standards 67
KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works 70
Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 117
The Past, Present, and Future of OSS 150
Red Hat Devs Working On ARM64 OpenJDK Port 63
Does OpenStack Need a Linus Torvalds? 152
The Greatest Battle of the Personal Computing Revolution Lies Ahead 291
ARM Code for Raspberry Pi Goes Open Source (Video) 91
Can Nokia Save Itself? 317
NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software 35
Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth 98
FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012 56
Eben Moglen Explains Freedom and Free Software in Two Video Interviews 78
OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice 266
The Growth of Google Summer of Code 20
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work? 167
The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising 35
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) 53
Bruce Perens To Answer Your Questions 78
KDE Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps 70
Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want 280
Soon to Be Released CKEditor 4 Features New Skin And Inline Editing 69
Mesa 9.0 Released With Open Source OpenGL 3.1 Drivers 79
First Community Release of Diaspora 111
Samsung Galaxy Note II Source Code Released 32
Open Source Raspberry Pi WebIDE Alpha Released 26
Linux 3.7 Kernel To Support Multiple ARM Platforms 82
Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? 224
Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon 109
Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel 126
HP Releases Open webOS 1.0 51
FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released 82
Prime Minister to French Government: Favor FOSS Wherever Possible 112
Adobe Releases New Openly Licensed Coding Font 136
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline 154
Torque3D Engine Goes Open-Source 68
NVIDIA To Publicly Release Some Tegra GPU Documentation 85
MakerBot Going Closed Source? 182
Open Compute Project Publishes Final Open Rack Spec 28
Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets 74
Study Urges CIOs To Choose Open Source First 95
X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old 285
Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low 286
Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL 98
Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) 80
Torque 3D To Be Released On Github Under the MIT License 54
4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API 166
Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters? 158
Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed 155
Open Source Beer Served Cold, With a Heated Licensing Discussion 112
Bring On the Decentralized Social Networking 238
Should We Print Guns? Cody R. Wilson Says "Yes" (Video) 444
Are App.net's Crowdfunders Being Taken For a Ride? 95
HP Launches Beta of Open webOS 56
Valve Finds Open Source Drivers To Be Great 159
Makerplane Aims To Create the First Open Source Aircraft 100
Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" 124
Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing 360
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Can Android Revolutionize Spacecraft Design? 110
Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? 247
GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies 432
Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? 336
Dremel-Based Project Accepted As Apache Incubator 45
Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi 75
Calligra 2.5 Office and Creativity Suite Released 67
Amarok 2.6 Music Player Released 100
The Open Source Technology Behind Twitter 81
Validating Voters For Open Source Governance, In Person 214
Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device 262
Ask Slashdot: How To Run a Small Business With Open Source Software? 195
In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future 85
TextMate 2 Released As Open Source 193
With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders 218
Digia To Acquire Qt From Nokia 152
Open-Source Movements Bicker Over Logo 158
How Haiku Is Building a Better BeOS 137
Dark Reign 2 Goes Open Source 41
Free Software PS2 Emulator PCSX2 Hits 1.0 202
UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand 521
Adafruit Releases Educational Linux Distro For Raspberry Pi 38
Open WebOS Releases Core Apps; Reveals Touchpad Won't Be Supported 49
KDE Announces 4.9 Releases 159
Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets 125
Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE 202
ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released 65
HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack 30
Ex-Sun Employees Are Taking Java To iOS 115
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Employee Vacation-Day Tracking Software? 108
App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy 596
Linux 3.5 Released 277
Great Open Source Map Tools For Web Developers 34
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
Ubuntu Unity Ported To Fedora Using OpenSUSE 128
CowboyNeal Reviews Alien Arena: Reloaded 33
NSA Mimics Google, Angers Senate 193
Contiki 2.6: IPv6 For Everything, Everywhere 62
Open Compute Project Driving Open-Source Hardware Development 29
Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla 229
MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal 63
Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud? 189
Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year 332
Google Releases Android 4.1 Source Code 211
ARM Publishes 64-bit "AArch64" Linux Kernel Support 90
Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client 378
Is Python a Legitimate Data Analysis Tool? 67
US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform 302
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? 234
How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry 199
Open Source Morrowind Version 0.16.0 Released 98
VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American 118
Quake 3 Source Code Review 107
The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model 341
How Red Hat Decides Which Open Source Companies To Buy 20
HP Releases More WebOS Components for the TouchPad 48
Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? 663
Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software 192
Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support 581
Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License 113
The Death of an HTML5 Game Breeds an Open Source Project 147
AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack 81
Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users 242
NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds 497
How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs 202
SourceForge Allura Submitted To the Apache Software Foundation Incubator 30
Erlang and OpenFlow Together At Last 93
Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support 663
OpenBSD Fork Bitrig Announced 178
Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software 490
OpenRelief Project Launches Disaster Drone Project at LinuxCon Japan 30
Is OpenStack the New Linux? 185
Intel Builds On Top of Android, But Hedges On Open-Sourcing Improvements 156
Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure 189
Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code 221
Samba 4 Enters Beta 170
KDE Announces 4.9 Beta1 and Testing Initiative 134
Why the GPL Licensing Cops Are the Good Guys 233
Speech Recognition Using the Raspberry Pi 74
Basque Country Gov't Decrees State-Produced Software Should Be Open Sourced 38
MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files 83
Open-Source Mini Sub Can Be Made On the Cheap 62
All Researchers To Be Allocated Unique IDs 164
Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight 336
"Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online 110
TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap 345
Why Open Compute Is a Win For Rackspace 46
Comparing R, Octave, and Python for Data Analysis 61
KDE Announces Partner Network 41
Nmap 6 Released Featuring Improved Scripting, Full IPv6 Support 45
Linux 3.4 Released 385
Software Patents Good For Open Source? 150
UK Gov't Reneges On Open Source Promise For Cloudstore 2.0 48
Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? 577
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC 711
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? 198
Open Source Driver For Microsoft Surface 2.0 31
Willow Garage Announces New Open Source Robotics Foundation 9
Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference 460
Apache OpenOffice Releases Version 3.4 151
Dealing With the Eventual Collapse of Social Networks 370
Sigrok: An Open Source Logic Analyzer 42
Google Releases Key Part of Street View Pipeline 44
Tizen Reaches 1.0 68
Is GPL Licensing In Decline? 266
Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features 126
Conflict of Interest Derails UK Government Open Source Consultation 34
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free 369
Elephants Dream Director Readies Blender-Animated Tube 40
12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word 642
Ask Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site? 151
Open Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not? 178
GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL 312
Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver Published 79
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux 231
KOffice Descendent Calligra Office and Creativity Suite Hits Release 72
The Liberated Pixel Cup: a Game Making Contest From the CC, FSF, and OpenGameArt 53
New Zealand Developers Building Open Source Code For Electric Cars 45
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Embraces FOSS, Publishes On Github 38
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? 387
Ask Slashdot: Viable Open Source Models For Early Startups? 203
Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap 166
Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch 93
Animated Presentations Using SVG 49
Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor 305
Qt 5 Alpha Released 117
Testing AI Methods With FlightGear 66
Glibc Steering Committee Dissolves; Switches To Co-Operative Development Model 102
Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good' 195
Raspberry Pi Gets a Red-Tape Delay; Awaits CE Certificate 135
In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue 227
GNOME 3.4 Released 147

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