The FreeBSD Foundation, creators and maintainers of the free and open sourced FreeBSD operating system, have received a very generous donation of one million dollars from Jan Koum, CEO and founder of WhatsApp, as a sign of appreciation for the code the Foundation shares.
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In what seems to be a new and much welcomed trend towards true openness, Microsoft announced yesterday they were opening up the source code of .NET under a Free Software License. And they weren’t kidding: the code for .NET can already be found at their GitHub repository.
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The Free Software Foundation has opened their calls for nominations for this year’s Free Software Awards. There are two categories for the awards: Award for the Advancement of Free Software, presented to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software; and Award for Projects of Social Benefit,…
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The late 70s and early 80s were arguably the golden age of computer nerdiness. This was an age of innovation and invention: the first mouse-driven interface, the first GUI, and even the first touchscreen are all products of that era. In those early days, you programmed your own drivers, wrote your own applications, and hacked…
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Now that Minecraft and Mojang belong to Microsoft, things don’t bode well for multiplatfom playing or open modding and APIs within the game. That’s why plenty of players are looking for alternatives to jump ship to so they can continue enjoying their “social lego” world-building activities. Well, good news, everyone! Alternatives exist, and at least…
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The AmayaOS team has just released version 0.06 of their free Unix-like (but not Linux) operating system. Apart from bug crushing and performance enhancements, the team have added a windows manager of sorts (that works in a text terminal) and a text editor called WAMA that can be run within the windows manager. The creators…
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Arty FX is a plugin bundle of artistic real-time audio effects. The aim of this plugin collection is to allow you to design your sounds just as you desire, using a fast and efficient workflow. Arty FX belongs to the OpenAV suite of sound utilities we talked about a few days ago and the creator,…
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The Blender Foundation is famous for two things: their kickass 3D design application, and the films the team has produced over the years. One has always gone hand in hand with the other. The films allowed the Foundation to bring together artists and developers and have them work on a joint venture. The artists gave…
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Edx and the Linux Foundation have teamed up to bring a free online “Introduction to Linux” course to users worldwide. No previous knowledge of Linux is necessary to be able to attend the course, so it is ideal for beginners who would like to understand what all the Linux fuss is about, see if Linux…
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Pioneer is an open-ended space RPG-adventure game, much in the spirit of Elite and similar classics. You can make a living by trading and transporting material, become a space-pirate, a bounty hunter or a hired gun for one of the many warring factions. From the site: »The game is open-ended, and you are free to…
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Based on the FreeNOS Kernel, AmayaOS is a Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in C++ that aspires to become a full-fledged and efficient system for old or underpowered hardware. The project, started by 14-year old programmer Daniel MartÃn, counts on a crew of enthusiastic developers located mainly in Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. This group…
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Krita, the very excellent Free and Open Source painting application, has reached its crowdfunding goal with 10 days to spare. The team has managed to raise over $15,000. The money will be used to fund further development of the software. Thanks to the funding, developer Dmitry Kazakov will be able to work on Krita for…
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