Open Source Stories for 2019

CNBC Reports Open Source Software Has Essentially 'Taken Over the World' 103
FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Forking OpenBSD, Citing 'User Freedom' Concerns 135
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten 49
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It) 147
RISC-V Foundation Moving To Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears 76
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Are Forced Subscriptions Driving 3D Users To Open Source Tools? 136
NPM Adds Command-Line Option To Help Fund Open-Source Coders 15
Does Linux Have a Marketing Problem? 263
'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes 29
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Play Store Over Donation Links 39
Microsoft Launches Two New Open Source Projects for Developers -- OAM and Dapr 34
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware 29
'Collapse OS' Is An Open-Source Operating System For the Post-Apocalypse 106
Linus Torvalds Isn't Worried About Microsoft Taking Over Linux 141
Oracle Outperformed? TPC Benchmarks Show Alibaba's OceanBase Performs Twice As Well 46
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks Grants For Ambitious Expansion 21
Digital Ocean's 6th Annual 'Hacktoberfest' Celebrates Open Source and Environmental Projects 7
Purism's Librem 5 Phone Starts Shipping. It Can Run Linux Desktop Apps 46
Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is? 136
As 'CentOS Stream' Brings Rolling Releases, Some RHEL Development Moves Into CentOS Project 15
The /e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available 43
Developer Made an Ad Blocker That Works On Podcasts and Radio 31
Latest Lakka Release On Raspberry Pi 4 Showcases Great Retro Gaming 11
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free 89
CentOS 8 To Be Released Next Week 25
Pine64 Confirms $25 'PineTime' Smartwatch for Linux Smartphones 43
Was Advertising in Open Source Software a Useful Experiment? 64
Java EE 'Goes All In' on Open Source with Jakarta EE 8 54
Linux Foundation Survey Proves Open-Source Offices Work Better 35
GNOME 3.34 Released 28
Open-Source Database Scylla Gains DynamoDB Compatibility 8
Manjaro Linux Tries Forming A Company To Fund Full-Time Development 26
Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone 46
Silicon Valley Heavyweights Fire Up Plan For an Open Lunar Settlement 197
Samsung Announces Standards-Compliant Key-Value SSD Prototype 74
Free Software Advocate Richard Stallman Spoke at Microsoft Research This Week 94
Don't Get Locked Up Into Avoiding Lock-in 63
Greg Kroah-Hartman Reveals His New Favorite Linux Distro 97
IS AMD Returning to Open-Source BIOS/Coreboot Support? 25
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of the Linux Kernel 60
Standard, a Javascript Style Guide Library With 3M Downloads Per Month, Now Showing Ads When Installed Via NPM 82
Why Are 'Supply Chain Attacks' on Open Source Libraries Getting Worse? 44
IBM is Moving OpenPower Foundation To The Linux Foundation 46
Slackware, the Longest Active Linux Distro, Finally Has a Patreon Page 49
Google Open-Sources Live Transcribe's Speech Engine 14
Anime Studio, Khara, Is Planning To Use Open-Source Blender Software 20
Was 2007 the 'Golden Age of Open Source'? 42
Are We In 'The Golden Age of Open Source'? 72
Landmark 2.80 Release of Open Source Blender 3D With Improved UI Now Available 67
Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation 49
When Open Source Software Comes With a Few Catches 120
Open Source RISC-V License Helps Alibaba Sidestep US Trade War 221
AI is Supercharging the Creation of Maps Around the World 49
VLC Developer Debunks Reports of 'Critical Security Issue' In Open Source Media Player 80
IBM Gives Cancer-Killing Drug AI Project To the Open Source Community 42
'Fortnite' Creator Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation With $1.2 Million 43
Celo Launches Decentralized Open Source Financial Services Prototype 32
Developer Requests Google Remove Their Logo From Re-Designed Golang Page 113
GitHub Removed Open Source Versions of 'Deepfakes' Porn App DeepNude 178
After 25 Months, Debian 10 'buster' Released 158
'Kerfuffle' Erupts Around Newly-Proposed try() Feature For Go Language 210
Google's Robots.txt Parser is Now Open Source 32
Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead 205
Tech Press Rushes To Cover New Linus Torvalds Mailing List Outburst 381
The Slashdot Interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall 51
How OIN's Linux-Based Patent Non-Aggression Community Drove Open Source Growth 25
Mattermost Raises $50 Million For Its Open Source Slack Alternative 38
Google's Private Join and Compute Gives Companies Data Insights While Preserving Privacy 22
Are Open Source Developers Being Underfunded and Exploited? 228
KDE Plasma 5.16 Released 49
Graphene As an Open-Source Material 26
'Medicine Needs To Embrace Open Source' 77
CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' With Open Source Software 236
Interviews: For the 25th Birthday of FreeDOS, Ask Its Founder A Question 94
Microsoft 'Wins Over Skeptics, Open-Source Great Satan No More', Declares Bloomberg 271
Eric S. Raymond Survives New Medical Problems 213
The Ambitious Plan To Reinvent How Websites Get Their Names 178
Eric S. Raymond Calls SaaS 'Dangerous', 'Worse Than Proprietary Software' 341
NLNet Funds Development of a Libre RISC-V 3D CPU 75
Google's Go Lead: the Language Belongs To the Community 60
Purism Introduces A New Social Network Named 'Librem Social' 114
Google To Restrict Modern Ad Blocking Chrome Extensions To Enterprise Users 312
Chinese Developers Fear the Fallout From the Tech War Will Cost Them Access To GitHub 180
Systemd Now Has More Than 1.2 Million Lines of Code 249
GitHub Launches Sponsors, Lets You Pay Your Favorite Open-Source Contributors 85
Google Pushes Kotlin Over Java for Android Development 117
Microsoft Open-Sources a Crucial Algorithm Behind Its Bing Search Services 55
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Host Your Own Email Server? 337
PowerToys Are Back! Microsoft Reboots the Utilities As an Open Source Project 48
IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat CEOs Shared a Keynote at 15th Annual Red Hat Summit 12
Google Is Starting To Reveal the Secrets of Its Experimental Fuchsia OS 75
Does Open Source Have a 'Working For Free' Problem? 191
The Mysterious History of the MIT License 40
Designers Release 'Aweigh', An Open Source Alternative to GPS 186
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform To Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers 111
Databricks Open-Sources Delta Lake To Make Delta Lakes More Reliable 15
Bluecherry Open Sources Its Entire Linux Surveillance Server 30
Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? 467
Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? 966
'SPURV' Project Brings Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux 52
Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software 51
SUSE Will Soon Be the Largest Independent Linux Company 57
Hoping To Fix College Teaching, CMU Open-Sources Trove of Software 71
ARM In the Datacenter Isn't Dead Yet 147
Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations 130
LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL 36
Are Large Cloud Providers a Threat To Open Source Vendors? 67
Is Amazon's AWS Approaching 'War' for Control of Elasticsearch? 62
Linux Foundation Launches New Tools Supporting The Open Source Community 26
Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS 38
Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' 176
VMware Touts Dismissal of Linux GPL Lawsuit 68
Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Calculator 292
NSA Releases Ghidra, a Free Software Reverse Engineering Toolkit 64
Microsoft's Chromium-Based Edge Browser Looks Just Like Chrome 128
Google Open-Sources GPipe, a Library For Training Large Deep Neural Networks 22
Linux 5.0 Released 107
Choose Your Representatives On the Open Source Initiative Board 33
MariaDB CEO Accuses Large Cloud Vendors of Strip-Mining Open Source 200
Redis Changes Its Open Source License -- Again 68
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software 96
Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code For Discrete GPUs 43
8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked In Under 2.5 Hours 125
KDE Plasma 5.15 Released 44
Should All Government IT Systems Be Using Open Source Software? 206
Sony Pictures Open Sources Software Used to Make 'Into the Spider-Verse' 38
Tesla Hacker Launches Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV' To Run On Rooted Teslas, Bring New Wi-Fi Hotspot and Anti-Tracking Features 118
LibreOffice 6.2 Brings New Interfaces, Performance Improvements To the Open Source Office Suite 153
Do Debian APT and PHP Pear Patches Highlight Vulnerability In Package Management Infrastructure? 48
Microsoft Acquires Another Open-Source Company, Citus Data 44
GitHub Seeks Feedback on 'Open Source Sustainability' 87
Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License 106
AWS Launches Fully-Managed Document Database Service 59
Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs 115
NSA To Release a Free Reverse Engineering Tool 61
Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi 106
Linux For Cars: Tesla Isn't The Only Automaker Running Linux Under the Hood 75