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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
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
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