Facing the Future of Open Source

For our December "Community Choice" Project of the Month, the community elected XigmaNAS, an embedded Storage distribution for -- Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   Issue #67 - December 4, 2019 Share Sponsor Instantly detect suspicious activity on your PC with GlassWire.com FREE! Use the same tool information security and IT Pros use to find data wasters, privacy violators, bandwidth hogs, and malware. Try it now for free at GlassWire.com Community Choice Project of the Month for December For our December "Community Choice" Project of the Month, the community elected XigmaNAS, an embedded Storage distribution for Windows, Mac and UNIX-like systems. Vote For January's Project of the Month The vote for the January 2020 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until December 15, 2019 12:00 UTC. Also check out the blog here for full descriptions of each project. 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