GNU Octave 11.1.0 released

Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This maj [...]

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[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window

The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of the merge window. The changes i [...]

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Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

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Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad has an overview of Weston 15.0, which was released on F [...]

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The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

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The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

The Ladybird browser project has announced a move to the Rust programming language: When we [...]

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[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing or two about what [...]

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Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc1

Linus has released 7.0-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. 'You all kn [...]

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[$] Open-source Discord alternatives

The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content — although the company q [...]

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The Book of Remind

Dianne Skoll, creator and maintainer of the command-line calendar and alarm program Remind, has [...]

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