It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of "sudo" super glue can put his pieces back together again.
I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community. Con - that champion of all things desktop centric - hung-up his keyboard this summer, the victim of an ideological rift within the Linux community.
Full story »Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
bearlake
4 years 35 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago
the author is such a dropkick,
the author is such a dropkick, does he really believe the loss of a single programmer will doom the kernel, the audacity to say that kolivas is the only one who ever cared about desktop linux.
someone shoot this man before he can breed, lest he screw up evolution
melinko2003
4 years 35 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago
Lol.. Just means you cant believe
Lol.. Just means you cant believe everything you read on the internet... next thing you know you will see blogs about ninja squirrels who use linux and develope kernel code :)
Kennnn
4 years 35 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago
Well saying that, I did once meet
Well saying that, I did once meet a badger that programed in mono and compiled his own kernel to allow his automated feeder to work by a bash script running as a cron job.