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Those who actually search for software can also look in freshmeat.net and newsgroup comp.os.linux.announce and linuxapps.com and a buyer's guide.

First, Let me say that I have an agenda: I've had a war on, since 1998, with the authors of a crappy little program for Linux called linuxcad. This is a several hundred dollar (yes it _does_ cost more than $99 to get all the stuff, trust me) piece of junk that, in addition to not being worth anything like the price (can you say "rip-off"), they are constant newsgroup spammers.

Now it amazes me that, for as long as I can remember visiting linuxapps, this program has been in the #6 "Most popular today" position. I notice that kind of thing. Now a quick search around and you'll only find this program at one other site, SAL, which may not know any better. I've written to linuxapps.com suggesting they remove it to keep Linuxers from getting ripped off (I've got a number of emails to back that), but it's still there. It sure is suspicious to me.

Ok, maybe the list isn't updated, but then again, I have seen it change. So it seems to me, that they're playing a similar game here (the game of deception) to make you think lcad is a popular program, probably for pay from the lcad authors (I emphasize probably), and get you ripped-off, too.

Is anyone else annoyed by the big Internet.com "network"? It seems that they are going around and buying every single worthwhile and half-worthwhile website out there? After the site is acquired, it becomes slower than it was before, because they fill it with ads and links to their other sites.

During the last year, this has happened to many of the sites I frequent. I'm getting really bugged, and a even a little scared. This post on Slashdot just gives me another reason to be so.

• TheCounter was an excellent counter service. They had a website with two banner ads on each page, and a nice clean layout. The counters they provided loaded quickly and reliably. After having been acquired, the website was redone to something that makes my eyes hurt, and the counters started either taking ages to load, or failing to load at all. Their solution? Create a new account so that it exists on our new server.
• No major changes yet at LinuxApps, except for all the links and ads for the other Internet.com sites. However, the same problem as the one listed in this post arises. Would a post about Freshmeat on LinuxNewbie be pulled because Internet.com owns LinuxApps, which is similar to Freshmeat? This is, apparently, what happened in this case.
• BrowserWatch, LinuxNewbie, PHPBuilder, and a lot of other sites I frequent have all been bought by Internet.com. There haven't been major changes on them yet, besides all the annoying links and logos, but this post gives me more reason to be paranoid.

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opera.com is dreadfully slow (prolly /.ed). I found the response at opera.no to be much better.

At the Linux Metapage (http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linux-meta.html) there's pointers to a lot of different types of software for Linux.

In particular, there's a pointers to to SAL (http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml) and LinuxApps (http://www.linuxapps.com/) and other software lists that might interest scientific Linux users.

LinuxApps.com is not owned by VA. It is a Linux.com partner, much in the same way that LinuxNewbie.org (which is owned by internet.com) is a Linux.com partner.

Hi Guys....

LinuxApps is not owned by VA. This is just a simple link exchange. Trae McCombs had asked for the 'linux.com partner' link, in exchange for the button ads placed on the linux.com site.

Matthew

How will it affect Freshmeat (owned by Andover) and LinuxApps (a 'partner' of linux.com, owned by VA)?

Found on LinuxApps: The Icod program converts .ico files to XPM X-format pixmaps.