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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 
The bull doesn’t seem to be part of PCLinuxOS anymore, as it was in 2010 when I first started using it. The distro changes its look with each new release and nowdays the logo is something akin to a CPU usage graph. Other than that, I can’t tell you a thing about the greatest and latest version of PCLOS. I became a PCLOS user when someone gave me an old Dell laptop running XP. The first thing I did, of [...] Continue reading Saying Goodbye To PCLOS 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 Friday FOSS Week in Review With the Black Hat Conference going on in Las Vegas, and with Congress messing around where they shouldn’t, this has been a busy week in the FOSS world. Some of the news is good; some of the news is not so good. I’ll start with a rant… Proposed Data Retention Bill Would Chill Free Speech The House will soon be considering a bill that will require ISP’s to maintain logs of their customers Internet use [...] Continue reading Congress Considers Stepping on Rights, Windows Mobile Share Nil & Whose DNA Is It Anyway? 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 |
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