Open Source Stories for 2015

List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Mesa's Highlights Reel: An Impressive Year For Open Source 3-D Drivers 27
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Perl 6 Released 145
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion 165
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier 32
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Khronos Delays Vulkan Graphics API To 2016 Release 50
Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? 388
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? 113
Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators 188
Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online 67
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
Attackers Can Hijack Joomla Sites Via User-Agent Strings 66
Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards 44
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video #2) 14
Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design 56
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer 44
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source 74
Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 30
Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser 114
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB 244
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project 195
Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support 56
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS 134
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters 44
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) 112
Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox 316
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Freeciv Founded 20 Years Ago Today 37
Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit 15
Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket 199
PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query 83
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
Getting Started With GNU Radio 42
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web 143
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security 291
Fedora 23 Released 57
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 262
Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics 576
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129
Busybox Deletes Systemd Support 572
Open-Source GPU Drivers Show Less Than Ideal Experience For SteamOS/Linux Gaming 109
MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks 55
Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty 214
Ask Slashdot: Open Tools For Logbooks and Note-taking? 227
Mozilla Giving $1 Million To Open Source Projects It Relies On 68
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster 111
Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code 164
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 158
October is the Most Open (Source) Month (Video) 25
Report: Red Hat Buying DevOps Startup Ansible 78
Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon 83
Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers 177
KDE Turns 19 115
Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 65
Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? 121
Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD 152
3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development 75
There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive 781
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
Linux Foundation: Security Problems Threaten 'Golden Age' of Open Source 77
Open-Source Doom 3 Advances With EAX Audio, 64-bit ARM/x86 Support 37
Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base 220
Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support 152
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument 55
Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source 696
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers 91
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format 311
Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion 146
LibreOffice Turns Five 147
EFF: DMCA Hinders Exposing More Software Cheats Like Volkswagen's 166
How the Car Industry Has Hidden Its Software Behind the DMCA 126
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Nintendo Joins Khronos Group 46
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges 72
AMD Confirms Vulkan Driver For Linux, But To Start Off As Closed-Source 47
XPRIZE's Jono Bacon On the Next Great Challenge 20
The Era of Open Source Cars 31
OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4 88
Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? 77
Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released 94
Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? 103
Microsoft Announces VP9 Support For Edge 55
Node.js v4.0.0 Released 128
The Free Software Foundation: 30 Years In 135
Debian Working on Reproducible Builds To Make Binaries Trustable 130
New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment 197
What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? 165
Netflix Open Sources Sleepy Puppy XSS Hunter 12
How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better 31
Mutt 1.5.24 Released 38
New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification 242
LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations 84
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' 99
LILO Bootloader Development To End 135
Linux Kernel 4.2 Released 142
"Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs 211
AMD's R9 Fury On Open-Source: Prepare for Disappointment, For Now 43
A FreeBSD "Spork" With Touches of NeXT and OS X: NeXTBSD 165
MIAOW Open Source GPU Debuts At Hot Chips 45
GNOME To Start Using Codenames 46
Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source 29
Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm 174
Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS 74
Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS 167
Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available 59
UNC Scientists Open Source Their Genomic Research 10
'Gynepunks' DIY Gynecology For Underserved Women 59
KDE Plasma 5.4 Released 43
Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 152
Meet Linux's Newest File-System: Bcachefs 132
City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality 394
Linux Foundation Project Will Evaluate Security of Open Source Software 37
KDE Applications 15.08.0 Released 68
Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK 108
Interviews: Ask Dr. Tarek Loubani About Creating Ultra-Low Cost Medical Devices 54
Debian Founder: How I Came To Find Linux 136
"Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation 157
IBM Launches Linux-Only Mainframes 157
FreeBSD 10.2 Released 103
Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model 179
The LibreOffice Story 254
OpenSSH 7.0 Released 75
Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor 145
Kali Linux 2.0 Released 109
Pixar's Universal Scene Description To Be Open-Sourced 37
Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School 233
LibreSSL 2.2.2 Released 33
Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Bridge For iOS 48
Marvell's Kinoma Create Keeps On Creating (Video) 14
India Adopts Comprehensive Open Source Policy 19
LibreOffice 5.0 Released 236
Largest DebConf Ever Will Hit Heidelberg In Mid-August 41
Ada Initiative Organization To End, But Its Work Will Continue 223
DoD Ditches Open Source Medical Records System In $4.3B Contract 186
On Linux, $550 Radeon R9 Fury Competes With $200~350 NVIDIA GPUs 83
Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question 359
Why Your Software Project Is Failing 119
Project IceStorm Passes Another Milestone: Building a CPU 107
Battle For Wesnoth Seeks New Developers 58
KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile 44
AMD Forces a LibreOffice Speed Boost With GPU Acceleration 144
Ask Slashdot: Building an Open Source Community For a Proprietary Software Product? 85
Meet OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Neela Jacques (Video) 14
Open-Source Mesa 3D Library/Drivers Now Support OpenGL 4 30
On Being Pro-GPL 250
Haiku OS Will Get New Service Manager 93
Renderman Gets Blender Integration 31
The Free Software Foundation's Statement On Canonical's Updated Licensing Terms 75
NSA Releases Open Source Security Tool For Linux 105
Virtual Reality Tech and Openness 25
What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong 267
Speed-Ups, Small Fixes Earn Good Marks From Ars For Mint 17.2 69
Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects 79
Linux Foundation's Census Project Ranks Open Source Software At Risk 47
MetaMorph Helps non-Engineers Design Circuits (Video) 21
French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML 75
OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug 45
Open Compute Project Comes Under Fire 86
Jolla Spins Off Hardware Business 44
BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design 97
What Goes Into a Decision To Take Software From Proprietary To Open Source 45
Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram 68
Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing 172
Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope 18
First Fedora Image For the MIPS Available For Testing 28
Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License 171
NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files 77
The Open Container Project and What It Means 54
The 2015 Open Source Summer Reading List 31
Docker and CoreOS Join Together For Open Container Project At Linux Foundation 48
Open Source Hardware Pioneer Ladyada Interviews the New MakerBot CEO 38
LibreOffice Now Available On Apple's Mac App Store 132
Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development 355
Is Surespot the Latest Crypto War Victim? 26
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him 323
Report: Aging Java Components To Blame For Massively Buggy Open-Source Software 130
Open Source JavaScript Library Released For Accessibility Testing 21
PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse 281
Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift 246
David Revoy Makes Open Source Art With Open Source Tools (Video) 13
Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration 351
Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software 216
Intel Skylake & Broxton Graphics Processors To Start Mandating Binary Blobs 193
SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims 172
Open Source Haxe/OpenFL Platform Will Support Home Game Consoles 20
Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH 285
LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? 131
Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements 155
MinGW and MSVCRT Conflict Causes Floating-Point Value Corruption 98
Red Hat CEO Publishes Open Source Management Memoir 49
Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video) 117
Ask Slashdot: Can SaaS Be Both Open Source and Economically Viable? 49
Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source 51
Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone 134
Huawei's LiteOS Internet of Things Operating System Is a Minuscule 10KB 175
Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android 111
First Smart TVs Powered By Firefox OS On Sale In Europe, Worldwide Soon 119
KDE Plasma 5 Becomes the Default Desktop of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 60
MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One 56
Linino-Enabled Arduino Yun Shrinks In Size and Cost 42
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? 200
RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading 244
Wireless Charging Tech Adopted By Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota Goes Open Source 75
'Venom' Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters 95
Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die 386
Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix 371
Open Source C++ ClanLib SDK Refreshed For 2015 47
$9 Open Source Computer Blows Past Crowdfunding Goal 180
Creating the Open Drone Ecosystem Takes Room To Experiment 21
Netflix Open-Sources Security Incident Management Tool 9
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? 469
Accessibility In Linux Is Good (But Could Be Much Better) 65
Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released 52
OpenBSD 5.7 Released 80
How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking 72
Once a Forgotten Child, OpenSSL's Future Now Looks Bright 76
When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly 177

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