Community

Community - free software in the global community - people, interviews, opinions, activism, events and community adoption of free software. In other words, the whos, whens and wheres of free software.
0

So, Can I have Gentoo back?

http://blog.funtoo.org

This is one of those uncensored, late night blog posts that I may regret in the morning. And it's about Gentoo.

Read more »
mads's picture
Created by mads 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Darl McBride: SCO's Prophet and Savior

http://benanzo.blogspot.com

"I was recently perusing through some old podcasts and came across an IT Conversations episode from November of 2003. It featured a speech given by SCO's CEO, Darl McBride, at Jupitermedia's Computer Digital Expo Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 18th, 2003. The speech was titled "There's No Free Lunch...Or Free Linux.""

Read more »
bridget's picture
Created by bridget 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Microsoft Leaves Linspire Robbed, Naked

http://boycottnovell.com

Well, well, well… That’s what ‘partners’ are for. Just shortly after Microsoft had betrayed Novell, Microsoft decided to move on to Linspire.

Read more »
C733tus's picture
Created by C733tus 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

GNOME Online Desktop: Achieving what was done over a decade ago?

http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com

Those who follow GNOME have probably read about the GNOME Online Desktop. After reading about this concept, I find myself very confused at what it is they’re actually trying to accomplish. Why do I need to imagine that sort of an operating system? I’ve had that for years now.

Read more »
C733tus's picture
Created by C733tus 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Confessions of a distro hopper

http://www.insidesocal.com

After years of sticking with Windows, once I discovered that you could download an ISO file, burn it to a bootable CD and run a whole new operating system, easy as that, I've been distro hopping. It all began with Knoppix, went from Puppy and Damn Small Linux, through Ubuntu to Debian, with many a stop in between.

Read more »
C733tus's picture
Created by C733tus 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

There’s one aspect of Ubuntu, and Linux in general for that matter, that’s putting me off. This is the fact that to play a DVD or use WMA/WMV files I have to install codecs that are technically illegal to use.

Read more »
peacemaker's picture
Created by peacemaker 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

OpenSolaris users group to Ian Murdock, Sun: You’re missing the point

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com

Some background: In March 2007, Sun announced Project Indiana, whose goal is to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. The long-term objective is to increase the technology’s user base and cultivate mind share.

Read more »
bluecheese's picture
Created by bluecheese 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Software Freedom Day 2007--Bigger than Ever

http://www.linuxtoday.com

September 15th marks Software Freedom Day, the world's largest celebration and outreach effort about why transparent and sustainable technologies like Free & Open Source Software are so important.

Read more »
bluecheese's picture
Created by bluecheese 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Novell Launches Linux Champions Club in Asia Pacific

http://www.smbedge.com

Novell announced today the launch of the Asia Pacific chapter of the Novell Linux Champions Club, following the success of the Champions Club in Europe. The objective of the Club is to build a community of Linux proponents among Novell’s strategic partners and their partners, eventually creating a Linux-friendly ecosystem in Asia Pacific.

Read more »
peacemaker's picture
Created by peacemaker 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Ubuntu is more popular than kittens AND pie

http://www.seopher.com

In a mildly childish attempt at putting the popularity of Ubuntu into real context, I've enlisted the help of Google trends to benchmark searches for "Ubuntu" against other words. Mindless spam or important sociological experiment? You decide.

Read more »
dave's picture
Created by dave 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Are There Really Too Many Linux Distros?

http://www.informationweek.com

How are Linux distributions like digital cameras? It sounds like a joke on the order of, "What’s the difference between a compulsive gambler and a revolving door?" (Answer: The revolving door knows when to stop.) But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve realized that Linux distros are as varied as digital cameras, and for some of the same reasons.

Read more »
snotbutter's picture
Created by snotbutter 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

An interview with Matthew Szulik: The culture of Red Hat, the power of open source

http://blogs.cnet.com

Matthew isn't the sort of person to seek the limelight for himself, so it was actually hard to convince him to answer questions. As became evident in his answers, Matthew firmly believes in the open source model and the culture of personal excellence that makes it fruitful.

Read more »
peacemaker's picture
Created by peacemaker 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Windows users are whiners

http://thebeez.vnunetblogs.com

"Linux is hard to install" - You probably bought a computer with Windows preinstalled and bought a new one when it came to a grinding halt. Next time try reinstalling it from scratch, drivers and applications included.

Read more »
greengrass's picture
Created by greengrass 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Firefox lances IE bug

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Mozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes a number of security bugs, including a high-profile bug involving launching Firefox from Internet Explorer.

Read more »
missgeek's picture
Created by missgeek 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:
0

Interview with Linus Torvalds

http://www.oneopensource.it

After all the kerfuffle about what Linus said about GPLV3 and friends, now you can read about it from him as opposed to the hypefest that information week provided. Among other things.

Read more »
bridget's picture
Created by bridget 14 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 46 weeks ago
Category: Community   Tags:

Best karma users