Open Source Projects of the Month

The featured open source projects for the month of June.  A group of Redditors came together in a bid to archive over 85 million scientific   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

ISSUE No. 103 - June 2, 2021

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Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers A group of Redditors came together in a bid to archive over 85 million scientific papers from the website Sci-Hub and make an open-source library that cannot be taken down. Read More at Slashdot.org

Popular Projects Sweet Home 3D An interior design application to draw house plans & arrange furniture Borderless Gaming A simple tool for turning windowed video games into fullscreen apps CMU Sphinx It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems. Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. DJV DJV provides professional review software for VFX, animation, and film

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Live Patching Requires Reproducible Builds and Containers Are the Answer We know that live patching has real benefits because it significantly reduces the downtime associated with frequent patching. But live patching is relatively difficult to achieve without causing other problems and for that reason live patching is not implemented as frequently as it could be. After all, the last thing sysadmins want is a live patch that crashes a system. Reproducible builds are one of the tools that can help developers to implement live patching consistently and safely. In this article, I explain why reproducible builds matter for live patching, what exactly reproducible builds are, and how containers are coming to the rescue. Learn More

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