I recently began charting the freefall of the Gentoo Linux distribution. The project peaked in 2003 but has been in steady decline since Daniel Robbins got up from the captains chair.
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Replacing A Cheaper Price With More Resources For Linux
http://www.linuxloop.com –
The netbook craze has created a lot of netbooks that have Windows and Linux versions. This, naturally, creates something or a pricing issue, since Linux is free and Windows is not. The most obvious option is to make the Linux one cheaper, but that is not what Asus, and possibly others, have decided to do.
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Review of Russell Dyer's MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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Review of MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition ~ reviewed by Steve McInerney The first thing I noticed is that, compared to the First Edition, the second is about 40% bigger. But is it just extraneous fluff or useful information? Useful. Very.
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Muppy Interview
http://tmxxine.com –
Mini-sys is a Puppy Linux fork, designed for stable, commercial use
It includes many enhancements for the home and professional user.
'Muppy' is the code name for Minisys-Linux.∞
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Pressure, progress flow at Linux Plumbers Conference
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This week’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland was a great opportunity for many of the Linux kernel community people to get together, challenge one another, hash out some differences and hone their similarities and synergies.
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Is the honeymoon over for Google Chrome as market share plummets?
http://www.itwire.com –
Within 48 hours of launching at the start of September, the Google Chrome browser managed to carve itself a pretty impressive one percent share of the global web browser market. That honeymoon period would appear to be over as we approach the end of the month and the market share starts to plummet...
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Free Riders, Canonical and Greg KH
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Greg KH contends that because Ubuntu merely consumes the kernel and other elements of Debian, (effectively pushing it even farther removed from upstream development) they are not fully participating in Linux. His point is that if you are a developer you should use your skills with those companies who actively support upstream development.
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Red Hat is the top Linux kernel contributor, but what about Canonical?
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No surprise, but Red Hat remains the top corporate Linux kernel contributor, as reported by SDTimes. As I've reported before, Red Hat is the top Linux contributor by a wide margin, with IBM, the next biggest corporate contributor, coming in nearly seven percentage points behind Red Hat.
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Welcome to the new browser wars
http://www.mercurynews.com –
It's like the '90s, but this time there are three competitors, and the music isn't as annoying.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6
http://www.phoronix.com –
Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 has been released as the final alpha build for Intrepid Ibex. This release ships with the latest GNOME 2.24 and Linux 2.6.27 bits along with X Server 1.5.0. Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 also supports Samba 3.2 with clustered file server support, encrypted network transport, IPv6 support, and better integration with recent versions of Microsoft Windows clients and servers.
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What Mozilla Means to Me
http://www.toolness.com –
When I talk to my friends and family about Mozilla, I notice that they all have different perceptions of what Mozilla is. Looking at Mozilla’s Wikipedia entry doesn’t shed much light on things either, as it’s largely a glorified disambiguation page that attempts to clarify the word’s many different meanings over time.
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Invitation for all Open Source GPS software developers and users to join FOSS-GPS mailing list
http://risto.kurppa.fi –
Yesterday I wrote about this idea to start a mailing list to gather Open Source developers and users to a single mailing list to share their ideas, announce releases, share patches and so on on a single list. Only a day later it’s reality so now I warmly welcome all FOSS GPS software developers and users to foss-gps@lists.osgeo.org
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Singapore holds string of open source events
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SINGAPORE--Ahead of celebrating global Software Freedom Day on Saturday, several of the country's open source user interest groups have been busy jointly hosting a number of related events this week.
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Why I Hate User Interface Debates
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Ah, it's another post about UI Aesthetics! Quick, let's everybody get in line to kiss up to Apple and Microsoft for giving us shiny shiny pretty. And then we'll find a couple of stray dogs and name them "Linux" and "BSD" and then we can kick them until they cower, for not having as much shiny shiny pretty.
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openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Available for Testing
http://ostatic.com –
The openSUSE Project recently announced the availability of openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 for wide scale testing and bug squashing. This development release is available in x86, x86-64 and PPC architectures as a DVD disk image (liveCDs are not available for the current beta).
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