In part 2 of our interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.

An update to my previous article My vi first steps

I use vi instead of command line editors to do mass replacing of blocks and editing many files in the following way:

say I know all files I need to edit in the current directory contain the text foo and the rest of the files don't.

I open all files containing foo in vi:

As part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process, Firefox 3.0.10 is now available for GNU/Linux..."

"If you are organizing with a group that believes a better world is possible and spend your energy trying to realize it, and if this world you envision is not beholden to corporate interests as our current one is, then there is something ironic and sad about using tools paid for by corporate advertising revenues to get the job done..."

"Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation today announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit each organization’s users by extending the way people can access free knowledge..." -- Is Microsoft

I was pleased to hear a while ago that K3b got two new developers assigned by the Mandriva project and that work at the KDE4 port is going well now.

Zaragoza, Spain-based eBox Technologies announced the availability of version 1.0 of its Ubuntu Linux-based eBox server distribution.The open source eBox 1.0 features LDAP, DHCP, NTP, DNS, and email servers, among other features, and provides a new development framework for building add-on modules, says the company.

Each programming language commonly has a host of libraries to assist in the screen scraping/parsing process and Ruby is no exception. To create simple screen scrapers in Ruby I have been using a library called scRUBYt!