Baldy’s Paradox

GoboLinux is a unique distribution in many ways. It’s built from scratch following the Linux From Scratch procedure and uses custom boot scripts, personalized directory structure, and a simple yet comprehensive source-based dependency-resolving package management system.

GoboLinux is perhaps best known for its alternate filesystem hierarchy. Unlike Linux’s traditional Filesystem hierarchy, where a program has bits and pieces scattered in several places like /etc, /usr/bin, and /usr/share, each program gets its own directory tree under GoboLinux.

Source: linux.com

Analysis — Ubuntu’s Technical Board has decided not to activate proprietary video drivers by default in the upcoming Ubuntu 7.04 (”Feisty Fawn”) release. Some people have interpreted this to mean that Feisty won’t include these drivers, or that Ubuntu was backing away from proprietary drivers.

Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder and backer, however, has now taken pains to tell the public that Ubuntu will continue to include and use proprietary software for “essential hardware.”

Source: desktoplinux.com

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance in an effort to make its products more interoperable with Microsoft’s extensive environment. The move makes Red Hat the latest in a growing line of Linux distributors cozying up with Redmond by joining the alliance — a group of tech companies working together to make their products work with Microsoft’s product line. Most of Red Hat’s work with the group will focus on making its middleware more compatible with Microsoft’s, building on previous efforts undertaken by its JBoss division.

Source: Red Hat Joins Microsoft Interoperability Group

Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team’s “users are idiots” mentality. Now he has “put his money…

Source: Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars