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The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good.

Posted by michael on from the well-duh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This year has proven most interesting for GNU/Linux. While there was not any amazing surprises, there were numerous events that are noteworthy for review. The upshot to all of this is that most of what happened was good overall for the Free Software community. Read the full story."

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  1. Re:Fonts That Don't Suck! by mbadolato · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hello Nitpick, PERL still is and always has been an abbreviation of "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language"

    Um, no it isn't. Right from the FAQ:

    What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?

    One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses "Perl" to signify the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it, i.e. the current interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can parse Perl." You may or may not choose to follow this usage. For example, parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and Perl" look OK, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do not. But never write "PERL", because perl is not an acronym, apocryphal folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.