Questions tagged [opensource-projects]
Open source is a methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to project's design and implementation details.
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How to report bugs and issues after issues got disabled in a software's GitHub repo?
When I run sudo apt-get update, I get the following error:
Err:8 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG ...
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need a pdf viewer that can share user behaviour details to another process
I need an FOSS pdf viewer library that can display the pdf file provided by its caller process in a seperate window and send back data like what page(s) the viewer is currently viewing, the visible ...
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How can I know where Debian gets its package sources from?
Imagine I have a tool "X". I know it exists in the current Debian distros, so I can find it on https://packages.debian.org.
This site also contains links to the downloadable Debian source ...
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Retrieving Project URLs and Project Download URLs of Fedora Packages
I have a list of all fedora packages in a .txt file and would like to retrieve the Project URLs and Project Download URLs of all these packages.
The command dnf info <package> does yield a ...
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Are Debian APT packages not officially supported or acknowledged by application developers?
I want to understand how the APT package is managed in general, considering the following situation I got into today:
I was trying to add MongoDB to my Debian machine. apt search mongodb showed good-...
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OSS Software for Quran Corpus(text annotations)
Is there any software that can produce annotations like this:
Link: https://corpus.quran.com/treebank.jsp?chapter=112&verse=1
I found a few options here: https://corpus-analysis.com/tag/...
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OpenBSD GCC Upgrade [closed]
I'm attempting to upgrade the GCC library in OpenBSD from 4.2.1 to 11.2.0 (for a project, and a personal challenge). So far, everywhere I looked was unsuccessful. I know it's probably something ...
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How can I own my very personal Cloud Server? [closed]
I want to own my very own personal Cloud server where I don't have to use any of third party hardware or services no subscription no chain latter etc the reason I want this type of cloud storage ...
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Synapse/matrix server container config permission/file denied
Answer posted by me below, can't accept my own answer yet
I am working on a chat client, for development I use a docker setup that uses a 'generate' command to create a config file that you can adjust ...
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Distributed build systems
Which tools for distributed builds are currently in use in popular Linux distros, like Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, etc.?
For example, we have a huge amount of packages with dependencies and try to ...
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Getting a true open-source only OS running on a phone? Android?
I've read a lot, and heard both sides, but still slightly in the cloud when it comes to android. Android is a open source OS, but when I buy a phone, it comes preloaded with google services and apps ...
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Under what circumstances are Red Hat kernels provided to CentOS?
I'm a little confused on how/when Red Hat kernels are provided to the CentOS development team for inclusion. Is that solely at Red Hat's discretion? Are kernels built under RH extended lifecycle ...
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Feasibility of open source OS that is binary compatible with OS X?
Could this be achieved? It would have to be done legally, without infringing on Apple's copyrights.
Could it be built on a Darwin, FreeBSD or other base and then aim for binary compatibility with OS ...
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Get dependencies to build package from source
I had an interview task to build an opensource software from source. One of the tasks was to come up with the dependencies (and tools) that were needed to build from source. However, I am working off ...
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Do all Linux distros and Desktop Environments have to be opensource?
I have always been under the impression that all Linux distros and Desktop Environments must be free and opensource. Is this correct? If so, how do I go about acquiring a source from one that's ...
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