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Reading an established open-source project's developer mailing list may leave new contributors wishing they had a decoder ring. Greg Sabino Mullane has written up a valuable explainer for those new to the PostgreSQL hackers (pgsql-hackers) mailing ...

Here is a piece of advice for anybody wanting an easy and frustration-free life: do not run your own email system. While there numerous advantages to keeping some control over your communications, there is also a long list of things that can go wrong ...

Back in 2021, the ElasticSearch search engine and Kibana visualization platform were relicensed under the non-free Server Side Public License (SSPL). Now, Elastic (the company owning those projects) has announced that those projects will also be ...

Dave Airlie makes an analogy between the stages of road building and those of adding Rust to the Linux kernel. For the wayfinders the process of interacting with maintainers is frustrating and slow, and they don't enjoy it as much as wayfinding, and ...

The venerable AnandTech site has announced its closing after 27 years of technology-industry coverage. Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was - nor will it ever be again. So, the time has ...

The KDE project plans to directly ask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version 6.2. According to this blog post by Nate Graham, users will see a system notification once per year (in December) asking for a donation to the non-profit ...

Version 5.0.0 of GNU Screen has been released. Notable changes in this release include new commands for authentication, input into multiple windows at the same time, and to turn on/off truecolor support.

Plasma Mobile is an open-source user interface for mobile devices, developed by the KDE community. It's built on the same foundations as Plasma Desktop, including KDE Frameworks and the KWin window manager. Much like its desktop counterpart, Plasma ...

Wedson Almeida Filho, one of the key developers driving the Rust-for-Linux project, has retired from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it ...

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