Recently, Linux has grown by leaps and bounds, moving into the mainstream consumer market. PLUG, as a Linux based community, must also grow to accommodate these changes. It has always been PLUG’s main goal to spread Linux and this goal will not change. The means of execution, however, will. In the past, PLUG was service [...]
Studies show that Linux is more rapidly taking developers from Windows. Potentially this could cause a shift in where the “it” applications live and draw more users to the Linux desktop.
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Posted 03 July 2007
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Andrew Morton, the 2.6 kernel (specifically the mm tree patchset) maintainer and a huge player in the Linux world recently gave a Google Tech talk. The talk really is “the current state of the Linux kernel,” even though he takes a while to get into the meat of the content. He’s also been a Google [...]
It looks like Dell isn’t done with Microsoft yet. They’ve joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance, giving it “industry” validity. I don’t know how much I like this and it’s hard to say were the future of operating systems is going. Microsoft’s got their foot in the door with the Novell alliance but now that a big [...]
I get many questions about how the open source development model works. How do the developers get payed? Who hires them? How do I get involved? Well, there are many different programs that use an open source development model, from Pidgin to the Linux kernel, and they all use their own modification of the model. [...]