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August 23, 2004 Leave a comment
As you may know, I am a ResierFS fan. I use it quite heavily on LQ in fact. I am interested to see how Reiser4, which was just released looks – but I'll hold off for a little while myself. Anyone else gave it a spin yet?
–jeremy
August 23, 2004 Leave a comment
O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference is coming up some and the speaker list looks great – Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Tim O'Reilly – you get the idea. “The web as platform, and its inevitable evolution into an internet operating system” seems like an interesting topic. My question is, why does O'Reilly schedule it's conferences either during or directly adjacent to the various LinuxWorld conferences? At this rate, I won't make any of them.
–jeremy
August 23, 2004 Leave a comment
With Open Source software changing the face of the market, will Open Source marketing be next? I'm not sold on this, but the article is an interesting read. What do you think?
–jeremy
August 23, 2004 Leave a comment
In this interview, Jakob Nielsen gives his opinion on the usability of Open Source apps. Unfortunately, on some of his points it's hard to disagree. The good news is that we are certainly making some inroads into some of the issues he brings up. And as more large companies start to get behind Open Source, things should improve even more.
–jeremy
August 21, 2004 Leave a comment
It's good to see a Linux company making money. What I found interesting in this article though, was the revenue breakdown for Novell. Out of $304.6 million in revenue for the quarter ending July 3, only $12 million in revenue was from its Suse Linux business. It's easy sometimes to forget just how big Novell still is. While they are doing all the right things now, with only 4% of their revenue being Linux based at this point, you almost have to wonder what they would do if their Linux arm doesn't meet their expectations. Having Novell and Red Hat competing is good from everyone, so let's hope they do the “right thing”.
–jeremy
August 21, 2004 Leave a comment
Here's proof that Americans sometimes forget that there is a whole world outside the USA. I'm a bit guilty of it sometimes myself, to be fair. But one of the great advantages of Linux (and Open Source in general) is that, due to the global nature of the development process, things like this are much less likely to occur. Additionally, by interacting with developers in other countries, you start to be exposed to and appreciate other cultures. Taking LQ as an example, we have mods from no less then 8 countries that span the globe. Out of these, I have been to exactly 2 of them. But by interacting with the mods I have learned many cultural differences, slang, ideas, etc. It really is a great thing.
–jeremy
August 20, 2004 Leave a comment
Just wanted to give a quick update on 2 LQ projects.
The LQ Wiki allows users to collaboratively build a free, complete and up-to-date Linux knowledgebase. It aims to become the largest general Linux Wiki on the web and uses a license from Creative Commons. The LQ Wiki currently has almost 1,900 articles and over 1,600 registered members. There is still much work to be done though. If you'd like to help, visit the LQ Wiki and start adding knowledge today.
LQ ISO is a site that was just recently released. LQ ISO helps users find fast download mirrors for their favorite Linux distributions. It also allows them to rate the mirrors and let other know how fast it was. The site has already resulted in over 5,000 downloads and has almost 50 distributions. Not bad for a site that was just released two weeks ago. If you notice your favorite distro or mirror missing, do not hesitate to use the suggest link.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program…
–jeremy
August 20, 2004 Leave a comment
According to this article, getting a Linux certification is not as important is having real world experience. I'd have to say that I not only agree with this, but think it's the way things should be. Passing a test, even a fairly difficult one like the RHCE, is not a substitute for experience. I do think that given two job candidates that are very closely matched, having that extra cert or two could be the difference though. What have others found to be the case?
–jeremy
August 19, 2004 Leave a comment
Are there too many Open Source licenses? With many companies starting to release their own OSS licenses, there are now over 50 that are approved by OSI. Eric Raymond said OSI has been aware of the potential problem for a “couple of years,” but things are not that serious right now. It's not a problem because fewer than half a dozen of the licenses are of any real significance for developers. I would tend to agree. I am still looking for ideas and feedback on the problem I ran into recently regarding the CC and GFDL licenses though.
–jeremy
August 19, 2004 Leave a comment
An interview with John Terpstra, John Weathersby and Jim McQuillan has been posted to the Consortium Standards Bulletin. The interview focuses on “the inevitable transition of the open source development model from a labor of engineering love to a more commercially influenced development process”. As Open Source matures I think it's inevitable that we will see some change, such as the move to better document the source of Linux kernel code. These things will become more important as broad acceptance becomes a reality.
–jeremy
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