Open Source Stories for 2014

Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? 299
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Subsurface 4.3 Released 38
Docker Image Insecurity 73
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Using Your Open-Source Contributions To Land a Full-Time Job 45
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? 217
The GPLv2 Goes To Court 173
Microsoft To Open Source Cloud Framework Behind Halo 4 Services 50
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? 259
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG 377
Why Open Source Matters For Sensitive Email 73
Ubuntu Gets Container-Friendly "Snappy" Core 149
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Microsoft Introduces .NET Core 187
Node.js Forked By Top Contributors 254
Using OwnCloud To Integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and More In Gnome 30
Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers 51
Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware 96
Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free and Open-source 56
CoreOS Announces Competitor To Docker 71
Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? 488
Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default 237
Open Source Craft Brewery Shares More Than Recipes 50
DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github 323
Creative Commons To Pass One Billion Licensed Works In 2015 39
Debian Forked Over Systemd 647
Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines 101
Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives 88
Critical XSS Flaws Patched In WordPress and Popular Plug-In 41
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google 161
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility 581
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases First Issue CC-BY-SA 62
Group Tries To Open Source Seeds 100
Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team 550
Open Source Self-Healing Software For Virtual Machines 50
GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support 89
Low Cost Ground Robot Chassis That Can Traverse Challenging Obstacles 38
Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) 192
Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform 525
Groupon Backs Down On Gnome 114
Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming 265
Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads 327
OpenSUSE 13.2 Released 42
EFF Begins a Campaign For Secure and Usable Cryptography 96
Google Releases Open Source Nogotofail Network Traffic Security Testing Tool 36
Trisquel 7 Released 39
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
It's Time To Revive Hypercard 299
Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations 158
Qualcomm Begins Contributing To Reverse-Engineered Freedreno Linux Driver 19
Vulnerabilities Found (and Sought) In More Command-Line Tools 87
Slashdot Asks: Appropriate Place For Free / Open Source Software Artifacts? 46
Drupal Warns Users of Mass, Automated Attacks On Critical Flaw 76
OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules 162
OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed 24
Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers 106
OwnCloud Dev Requests Removal From Ubuntu Repos Over Security Holes 126
Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? 155
Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime 245
Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork 555
Ubuntu Turns 10 110
Ask Slashdot: Stop PulseAudio From Changing Sound Settings? 286
Direct3D 9.0 Support On Track For Linux's Gallium3D Drivers 55
OpenStack Juno Released 20
Anonabox Accused of Lying About Its Product Being Open-Source On Kickstarter 72
KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 60
Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism 265
Will New European Commission Leaders Welcome Open Source and Open Standards? 21
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better 220
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Dronecode Project 24
Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source) 57
Startup's Open Source Device Promises Gamers "Surround Sound For Your Eyes" 43
AMD Building New GPU Linux Kernel Driver To Unify With Catalyst Driver 56
GNOME 3 Winning Back Users 267
Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" 993
Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws 81
Arducorder, Next Open Source Science Tricorder-like Device, Nears Completion 56
Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project 40
Interview With Facebook's Head of Open Source 29
Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X 174
How To Find the Right Open Source Project To Get Involved With 57
Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found 329
NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images 192
OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released 30
Catch Oil Polluters With Open Source Tools Using the Homebrew Oil Testing Kit 52
jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware 103
Fedora 21 Alpha Released 37
Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd 469
KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity 184
Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use 24
TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name 270
An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly 112
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released 72
Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd 385
Digia Spins Off Qt As Subsidiary 33
New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible 93
Industry-Based ToDo Alliance Wants To Guide FOSS Development 54
Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't 183
KDevelop 4.7.0 Released 48
The State of ZFS On Linux 370
GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD 314
Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx 326
LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend 99
A New FOSS Conference Comes to Florida (Video) 9
Why Munich Will Stick With Linux 185
Slashdot Talks with David Nalley About Apache CloudStack (Video) 13
Bringing New Security Features To Docker 29
David Klann Talks About Using Open Source Software in Broadcast Radio (Video) 35
Ask Slashdot: the State of Free Video Editing Tools? 163
Yahoo Stops New Development On YUI 79
State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers 34
PHP 5.6.0 Released 118
Netflix Open Sources Internal Threat Monitoring Tools 20
MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released 73
If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? 511
At Home with Tim O'Reilly (Videos 5 and 6 of 6) 6
Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software 159
At Home with Tim O'Reilly (Videos 3 and 4 of 6) 6
Qt Upgrades From LGPLv2.1 to LGPLv3 117
Kolab.org Groupware 3.3 Release Adds Tags, Notes, and Dozens of Other Features 26
At Home with Tim O'Reilly (Videos 1 and 2 of 6) 11
Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China 167
Project Aims To Build a Fully Open SoC and Dev Board 47
Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? 199
Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? 57
Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) 109
Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL 191
Open-Source Gear For Making Mind-Controlled Gadgets 32
Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? 427
Red Hat CEO: Open Source Goes Mainstream In 2014 65
Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU 136
Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library? 132
Microsoft's Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video) 101
Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company 59
Open Source Pioneer Michael Tiemann On Open Source Business Success 41
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? 430
The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi 188
Fotopedia Is Shutting Down; Data Avallable Until August 10 45
Meet Apache Software Foundation VP Rich Bowen (Video) 14
Reglue: Opening Up the World To Deserving Kids With Linux Computers 91
Old Apache Code At Root of Android FakeID Mess 127
Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? 436
seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source 82
Ask Slashdot: Open Hardware/Software-Based Security Token? 113
Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro 158
A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn't a Router 54
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get (or Share) News About Open Source Projects? 85
Switching From Microsoft Office To LibreOffice Saves Toulouse 1 Million Euros 296
A Warm-Feeling Wooden Keyboard (Video) 82
ScummVM 1.7.0 Released 26
Open-Source Blu-Ray Library Now Supports BD-J Java 94
Firefox 31 Released 172
FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software 125
Meet LibreOffice Volunteer Robinson Tryon (Video) 26
X.Org Server 1.16 Brings XWayland, GLAMOR, Systemd Integration 226
Open Hardware and Digital Communications Conference On Free Video, If You Help 15
ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source 158
KDE Releases Plasma 5 108
OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System 71
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136
Plasma 5 Release Candidate Announced 50
KDE Releases Frameworks 5 87
Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things 136
WebODF: JavaScript Open Document Format Editor Deemed Stable 91
Automotive Grade Linux Released For Open Source Cars 88
The New 501(c)(3) and the Future of Open Source In the US 228
Improv Project, Vivaldi Tablet Officially Dead 71
Why The Korean Government Could Go Open Source By 2020 64
Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki 176
Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE 132
Linux Mint 17 KDE Released 61
EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement 184
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster 143
Intel Adds SIMD Vectorization to JavaScript 1
3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift 72
TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible 250
Freecode Freezeup 62
NVIDIA Is Better For Closed-Source Linux GPU Drivers, AMD Wins For Open-Source 185
Open-Source Hardware For Neuroscience 41
Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions 224
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released 231
$470 RepRap Derived 3D Printer Going Into Production 32
Mesa 10.2 Improves Linux's Open-Source Graphics Drivers 58
id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced 100
Open Source Robot OS Finds Niches From Farms To Space 36
A Year After Snowden's Disclosures, EFF, FSF Want You To Fight Surveillance 108
Testing 65 Different GPUs On Linux With Open Source Drivers 134
Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released 132
Matthew Miller Named New Fedora Linux Project Leader 24
OpenPandora Design Files Released 65
NYC Councilman (and Open Source Developer) Submits Bill Establishing Open Source Preference 105
NVIDIA Adds Open-Source Gallium3D Support For the Tegra K1 17
China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative 222
Haiku Gains Support For Current Radeon HD Cards 70
R Throwdown Challenge 185
Wayland 1.5 Released 179
OpenStack: the Open Source Cloud That Vendors Love and Users Are Ignoring 99
Rackspace, Cumulus Networks and CoreOS Join Linux Foundation 9
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC 81
Why Should Red Hat Support Competitors' Software? 111
Autodesk Unveils 3d Printer As It Aims To Become Industry's Android 85
5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed 127
How To Approve the Use of Open Source On the Job 123
The Mifos Project Makes Software To 'Accelerate Microfinance' (Video) 39
HP Joins OpenDaylight Project 37
The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public 122
Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? 533
McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database 139
Crytek Open-Sources Their 'Renderdoc' 3D Debugger 20
GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium 121
US Military Drones Migrating To Linux 197
Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says 589
Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award 141
How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed 231
Free Can Make You Bleed: the Underresourced Open Source 175
OpenBSD 5.5 Released 128
After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed 77
Lumina: PC-BSD's Own Desktop Environment 148
Microsoft, Google, Others Join To Fund Open Source Infrastructure Upgrades 101
Groove Basin: Quest For the Ultimate Music Player 87
OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week 379
Linux Voice is a New Magazine for Linux Users — On Paper (Video) 72
Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? 285
Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary 139
How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? 582
OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL 304
Lucas Nussbaum Re-Elected As Debian Project Leader 28
Linux 3.15 Will Suspend & Resume Much Faster 117
Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? 452
Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device 34
Not Just Apple: GnuTLS Bug Means Security Flaw For Major Linux Distros 144
Intel Releases $99 'MinnowBoard Max,' an Open-Source Single-Board Computer 97
Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? 187
Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# 100
Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer 641
NASA To Catalog and Release Source Code For Over 1,000 Projects 46
Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will 129
Canonical Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services 161

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