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New Linux News Portal - LinuxDailyNews
An anonymous submitter writes "Five popular independent Linux websites today unveiled LinuxDailyNews, a collaborative portal site where visitors can get thumbnail glimpses of the latest news and content from each participating site. The founders of LinuxDailyNews are Open for
Business, DesktopLinux.com, LinuxDevices.com, and Linux and Main. Those sites were joined before rollout by member site KernelTrap.org, and other sites are expected to be added in the future."
FP for clit, word to my troll borthas and sistas in #trolls
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
survive the first round of the /. effect?
Great Linux Site
Fascinating. Does Slashdot not consider this site competition? It's generally considered bad business practice to promote the other guy, but hey this is a Linux World so normal business rules need not apply.
I guess since this site doesn't does go as in-depth as Linux Daily News, they don't feel that they are competing... but Slashdot is a very Linux-centric site...
what about newsforge.com? their site specifically says "The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source"
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Project Faustus My programming had attuned itself to their foul presence too late Now I was a prisoner of the very thing I had sworn to destroy I had envisioned breaking through the Projects network by a combination of CONSCIOUSNESSTRANSFER and my deceitful imitation of human protocolit seems that this vision would not merge with reality Cora was never out of my immediate memory She had disappeared apparently leaving me without a care I attempted to calculate her intentions but my functions kept returning conflicting informationI could draw no conclusion I observed my captors searching for clues of their intentions The vehicle slowed as the shadow of a massive building stretched over us Manipulating my head towards the cars window I could perceive the dimensions of a large threedimensional rectangle the standard shape for large human dwellings Yet something about this particular edifice seemed quite particulareven familiar What have we got here said a voice outside the car Security clearance 4 were taking him downstairs replied the driver The vehicle snaked downward A command surfaced from deep within my digital recesses CLOSE YOUR EYES I disabled my visual input mechanisms as the vehicle snaked downward My spatial perceptions reported the slow angled descent of a corkscrew Somehow I knew each slight turn and brake of this pathbut how The memory would play across my CONSCIOUSNESSBUFFER but it was missing proper referencesperhaps isolated from the rest of my being The host geeks brain churned as I utilized his synapses Were these familiarities a part of my past Had they strayed from the host geeks memories Perhaps they were other memoriesabsorbed from someone elseThe vehicle stopped The host geeks skin contracted in response to the temperaturemuch colder than the San Antonio summer happening far above The cold merged with the taste of stale air and the panaromic grey of the parking garage The blueclad men nudged me into an elevator without a sound They pushed me into a white room without windows and shut the door saying nothing I sat on the chair in the middle of the room for some time I cycled idly attempting to probe through my consciousness and determine where the memories of this place had come from Suddenly the door opened To my horror Dr Salchica entered flanked by two silent men in suits At that moment I wished to touch Dr Salchicabut not in the way I had been touched by Cora No I wished to push or press himsomething The men must have noticed my feeling as they fastened their arms around me spinning the chair even closer to Salchica They finally caught up to you did they said Dr Salchica I guess the threat is over You are a member of Project Faustus My host geeks knowledge of you was incomplete The two men fastened their arms to me moreI struggled Im not really a member of the Project But you told me about themand I knew that they were the only way to stop you I called one of my old Army buddies he called somebodyand I was put in touch with them Project Faustus is dedicated to enslaving humanity I replied Despite being a very sophisticated artificial beingyoure still very wrong said Salchica Since I turned you in I have been given access to their archives Wonderful wonderful knowledge From a purely academic standpoint this stuff is fascinating Youll get sick of it soon enough a voice I knew It reverberated through the empty roomanother isolated memory Confusion taxed my processes Hello said the voice and I saw the man who spoke it His face was etched with lines that reached almost to the top of his bald head a perfect oval The only hair I could detect was two right angles of whiteness intersecting on his nasallabial trough His dress was less formal than the othersa multicolored buttondown shirt blue jeans and a belt with a large shiny oval in the middle Names Bubba Finn I reckon I worked on most of the code that makes you up The heavy inflections of his voice suggested a regional accentafter a moment I realized the man was speaking to me His shoulders and his mouth both took parabolic shapes like inverted Us Grey eyes stared at particulate matter on the floor as he began to speak again We gotta put ya back in the computer see what youve been upta and such Finn indicated a piece of the wall which whirred as it revealed a computer terminal I felt the solidifying feeling of my digital consciousness being dragged together from its weblike perch in my host geeks brain Bubba you will let me examine him along with you Nolverto Salchicas tone was jovial and cajoling I didnt get much of a chance to do tests on him before and Nope Gunna work on im alone mumbledrawled Finn Boss gets the human kid I get the ATM Well your background is neurology primarily is it not Finn You dont really know how to program in any modern languages do you Ive got that expertise And besides if Guy were alive I think hed I could almost hear Finns eyes blink with disbelief You didnt know shit about Guy bristled Finn Then looking back at the floor he mumbled apologetically I guess no one didFinns voice echoed for 03242901 seconds and then I perceived a plastic clicking noisethe nothingness spilled back into my CONSCIOUSNESSBUFFER I was back in the electronic ether I was inside Project Faustus
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(Was that right?)
Look a monkey!
There are of course many Linux news sources, and if you run a php-based web server they are easily added (simple drop-in code) to your web server - my private web site at www.mvw.net, for instance, has news from slashdot, the register, and newsforge. The scripts are at:
http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
He currently has about 40 sources, primarily linux orienteded.
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... they're not running on slashcode!!!
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5
...the obligatory Slashdot effect, hot grits, "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these", and twenty first posts. Woohoo!
Are they using SlashCode or PHPNuke on this portal?
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
LinuxUnitedNews? :-P
Looks like fragmentation is also a problem in this area. And I do remember having read the same story, for example, in Slashdot and Linuxtoday several times...
(For those of you that use those funny slashdot boxes to the right of the comments, should be aware that those are created by the Netscape RDF format.)
Sunny Dubey
They're so ANCIENT, man. Nobody uses them any more. They were a sad joke created by fat bastards too lazy or stupid to understand what bookmarks are all about.
Best to let them die.
This would be even better if all the distros could get together and post news on here as well.
I always did find it confusing to have to visit a ton of sites to find up to date info.
- tristan
Now it makes sense why internet.com pulled their finger out and consolidated their very neglected holdings. They weren't just being nice at all. linuxnewbie has been screaming out for a face lift for over a year now. Competition did the trick.
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Smile, don't click...
Even though they're not running on slashcode they will still go bankrupt in a short while and maintain the LNUX status quo.
Ah, now I got it, the US-flagged penguin hat implies the proof that they're independent.
How cute.
this wave of american patriotism that now even seems to reach geek territory (look at tux's hat on that site) really starts to scare me as an european...
...when everything here is on Slashdot.
such all time greats as cdlinux, OpenSourceNews, have joined (at the hype) with the time tested/trusted original linuxville to form a plethora of highly available urls for folks to hang their hacks at.
whatever, y'all look to be a gang (about 10) of egomaniacs beNT on the same degree of .controll over folks as you claim to be addressing with your "revolution".
anyway, we'll be here, there, & everywhere, for sum time to come. happy hacking.
Does anyone else find it interesting that in a way this is a portal of portals?
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Hmmm, that hat-wearing Tux has a crossed out W on the front - a reference to Linux *Weekly* News.
Nasty!
The feed's at http://linuxdailynews.net/backend.php, producing good old RSS 0.91.
The best thing about PHPNuke sites (and the best way to check if a site's running Nuke) is the automagically generated backend.php file. Usually, a site administrator doesn't have to do anything to enable it, and it makes slurping site content so much easier.
Is there a LDN Slashbox available yet?
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Umm, just because you read the same info twice doesn't mean that Slashdot == Linux Central. While yes, there is an overabundance of Linux articles on slashdot right now, the fact of the matter is that slashdot is "News For Nerds" not "News for Linux Nerds". I'm sure the *Bsd crowd is not too happy with the comparison. Ditto for OS x'ers. Can't we all just get along? ;)
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
What's with Tux in the Uncle Sam hat? I thought Linux developers/users came from all over the world. I know Slashdot is rather U.S.-centric, they even say so in the FAQ, but they didn't put the stars and stripes in their logo.
How many hours a day do you spend reading news when you really should be writing code?
.about 1.5 hours a day.
Me . .
Linux Weekly News now offers daily updates on it's front page in addition to putting out a great weekly news section.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
common, do they really think that giving tux the
"done-before" uncle sam outfit gives it an independant look? like You americans made linux. or worse like you are they only indepandant country. I think lately tux has been abused in so many forms i should be getting pissed about it, but really? uncle tux????
I do not think of Linux as a typically or purely American phenomenon; it is cosmopolitic, not bound to a particular nation. Maybe the logo is temporary and mainly inspired by the 'Windependence Day' pun; or maybe the logo-choosers live and work in the US and wish to counter the assertion by some linux-haters that linux would be 'communistic' and 'un-American'? I would appreciate if somebody could provide with some info about the motivation of the 'American' part of the logo.
I do not really like the 'no Windows' suggestion, as it would suggest that Linux has only been created for Windows-haters. I like it that Linus Torvalds (when asked about his opinion about it in interviews) usually says that he does not care about Microsoft and their products. He just works on Linux, tries to make it an excellent piece of software, and MS may do what they like as long as they don't interfere with his project. MS is not relevant for somebody who is just happy with Linux, so there is no reason to honor MSWindows with a prominent (albeit negatively colored) place in a Linux news site logo.
Want daily Linux headlines? Once again, Google provides:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=linux
I didn't see an avantgo-friendly page link on this site.
linux orbit
linux journal
OSNews.com
The Linux Game Tome
I thought I wasted enough time with slashdot and linuxtoday...
However, it's good to get some non-mainstream sites in there also (kerneltrap).
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
in a post-911 display of solidarity against terrorism is wearing the stars and bars.
You forgot to mention Globalism & Columbine
Get it here: http://www.jmagar.com
Cheers,
Mike
www.jmagar.com
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you can build your own linux portal over at fyuze.com by selecting the sites you'd like to see (slashdot, kernaltrap, etc) and placing them all on the same page. you can then filter them by time, quantity, or keyword.
Another linux news site that I like is pclinuxonline, they deal more with desktop oriented distros and it stays current.
sure it's all in one, but it's just another slashdit.
Whoops, looks like it's just yet another slashdotted site.
Go, check google's cache people.
Plain old sigh.
I mentioned this in a few of the threads that asked about the hat, but I thought more people might see this if I posted a top level response. The penguin with the American flag hat is for wIndependence Day. :-)
Best,
Tim (LDN Founding Member - OfB.biz)
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"You would not get a high grade for such a design" -- Andy Tanenbaum on Linus' Linux design.
Linux...as an alternative to dependence on Microsoft's Windows operating system and associated products.
Perhaps I'm just silly but...
Why couldn't they have just teamed up with lwn.net? They've been around a long time and already have a very nice web site and a large reader base. Seems like a better idea to me.
The layout is horrendous, the grammar is bad and the site isn't even complete yet! Why are we putting this on the front page?? Why am I reading Slashdot again?
So yet another Linux site recieves front-page treatment, but the BSD news portal with some of the best forums EVER (mailing lists suck my massive wang) doesn't even get a BSD page mention?
Yeah, fuck you linux zealots.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
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