As with the U.S. economy, it seems like the web traffic of several well-known Linux related news sites are slowing down. According to statistics from Alexa, famous sites like Slashdot, Linux.com, and Linux Journal among others have a sudden decrease in site visitors.
Read more »Linux News Sites Web Traffic Slowdown: Is this for real?
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5 Things I Wish Linux Had
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I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf.
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Torvalds talks about his brand new blog
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We tend to think that everybody who's anybody in the tech world has a blog, right? Well, Linus Torvalds didn't have a blog, at least not until dipping his toe into the waters with this one -- "Linus' Blog" -- which launched last Thursday.
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Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Linux
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Ah, Linux! Is there anything it can't do? Not only can you surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes, here's how Linux also wants to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury.
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Differences between paid and volunteer FOSS contributors
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There's a lot of debate these days about the impact of the increasing number of paid developers in FOSS communities that started as volunteer efforts and still have significant numbers of volunteers.
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Thunderbird 3.0 beta turns into alpha
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The development schedule for Mozilla Messaging's Thunderbird 3 has been changed as the next beta milestone release is being rescheduled to be a third alpha release.
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Venezuela acquires one million Classmate laptops in deal with Portugal
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As part of a plan to increase the digital literacy in Venezuela by distributing computers to schools, Venezuela made an agreement with Portugal to buy one million Classmate laptops. The agreement includes the creation of a factory in Venezuela to build the computers.
Read more »FSF: wrong priorities, I'd say
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That's here: FSF Campaigns: High Priority Free Software Projects. And I don't see any vision at all, but mostly politics.
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OOXML Leaked: The Stuff ISO Doesn’t Want You to Have
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In light of the systematic abuse and the demise of ISO, which IBM loudly protested against [1, 2], we shall no longer let this process remain secretive. We finally have complete copies of the documents which the shenanigans keep behind passwords (unlike ODF which they attack).
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What I wish I'd read months ago about KDE3 vs. KDE4
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Possibly, the KDE team doesn't excel at Public Relations, but I can see know that they're handling the development part exactly right.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 25
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. Read more and have fun
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Linux Rooted in Fiction: ParanoidLinux
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If the fact that the ParanoidLinux distribution (now in an "alpha-alpha stage") is based on a work of science fiction isn't unsettling, consider two key peripheral issues.
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Interview with Linux guru Vincent Danen
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In this Inside TechRepublic podcast, Sonja Thompson talks to Vincent Danen, one of TechRepublic’s Linux gurus and long-time newsletter tip contributors.
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John McCarthy will be interviewed by Alan Kay at Lisp50
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"John McCarthy has been Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 1962. His research is mainly in artificial intelligence. Long ago he originated the Lisp programming language and the initial research on general purpose time-sharing computer systems."
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Brilliant Brainstorms #30 - Listen to Me! Please!
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.
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