With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.
To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.
Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.
If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.
Nextcloud has had some amazing updates recently. Adding Nextcloud Hub comes to mind.
Hub integrates the four key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware and Office into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration. Eliminate the confusing hodgepodge of different SaaS tools and the compliance, security, cost and productivity issues that come with it and standardize on a single solution with Nextcloud Hub.
Cool!
Is it an app for android or just the webpage that integrates all the cloud features like notes, files, etc. Sorry for noob question.
Hub is their core set of groupware apps for Nextcloud. They’re all tightly integrated. It came out with Nextcloud 18.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-new-standard-in-on-premises-team-collaboration-nextcloud-hub/
MuseScore had a big UI rework with MuseScore 4, with an excellent video about the behind the scenes by Tentacruel (https://youtu.be/XGo4PJd1lng).
Although not sure if it caught people off guard as I’m not a user of it.
Finamp’s current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it
Wow the UI is nice
https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp
Finamp is a Jellyfin music player for Android and iOS. It’s meant to give you a similar listening experience as traditional streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but for the music that you already own. It’s free, open-source software, just like Jellyfin itself.
I dunno… Jellyfin does great as a Video media player/streaming platform. I prefer to not have everything in the same basket.
Also, this is better for Dev, so they only have to concentrate to one type of thing. I would rather suggest navidrome as a music server and Tempo as a music client for android !!
Tempo doesn’t get updated so much (every few months) but he/she takes his time to make his player functional and very pleasing to the eyes.
I agree limiting application scope is useful for multiple reasons, however Jellyfin started as a fork of Emby which already had music support. I have yet to find a standalone application that has enough features to sway me from just utilizing the existing media server functionality.
Ghidra. Boom, here is 90% of ida pro. Enjoy.
As much as I complain about the NSA memeing around with zero days and data collection, their open sourced stuff is really cool and useful.
Same thing for SELinux. Suddenly kernel supports complete MAC security out of box.
Ghidra even gets huge updates with some good features to keep up with Ida.
There really is 2 NSA’s, with conflicting goals. Keep Americans secure, and collect everyone elses data. Its a difficult line to walk. The first half does produce really good advice and tools, but is undermined by the second halfs image.
I fortunately never learnt Ida due to cost, so I have no idea what is missing, but ghidra was a godsend for CTFs. Suddenly reversing challenges were accessible and easy.
https://code.nsa.gov/# - Lots of useful stuff here.
Note for any new comments:
- It helps if you add an explanation of what it does, or link to read more. The name often isn’t descriptive enough, and people love to find new things to use.
