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Penguinistas used to worry about the dreaded fork, especially of Linux. “What if Linux forks and becomes like Unix?” was a question often being posed in the open source media. Linus Torvalds would do his best to put those fears to rest, explaining that under the GPL forks are usually to be welcomed. He was of the opinion that if a fork improves a product and is liked by the users, those changes will almost certainly be rolled back into [...] Continue reading Some Prominent Open Source Forks I absolutely have to stop for a moment to wish a big happy birthday to the folks at Mageia. A year ago, when I wrote about a group of Mandriva former employees and contributors who’d decided to create a fork called Mageia, I had no idea whatsoever whether the project would survive to actually release a product. Well, a year has come and gone and Mageia not only released Mageia 1 in June, it’s now a distro with a year’s [...] Continue reading Happy Belated Birthday, Mageia I can’t keep up with the players. I’m going to have to buy a program. Everybody who’s not for sale is a potential buyer. And oh yeah, Maureen O’Gara’s still bashing the SCO bashers – go figure! SUSE Sale Apparently Hits Snag Last week at this time it was practically a done deal. VMware was buying the Linux side of Novell. Now, according to whom and what you read, the deal is either still on, it’s hit a “snag” or [...] Continue reading Friday FOSS Week in Review: With Six You Get Netware We reported on Friday that Mandriva’s financial situation continues to worsen and that nearly all paid staff have been laid-off. Soon after publishing that report, we received news from Paris, where Mandriva is headquartered, that a group of the distro’s former employees and contributors have decided to fork the project into a new distro that will be called Mageia. According to an announcement posted on the new distro’s web site, the decision to create a new distro from the Mandriva [...] Continue reading Mandriva to be Forked Into New Distro: Mageia |
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