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Posted by Hemos on from the support-them dept.

Lulu has announced a new program of creating boxed sets around particular technologies. They've got Fedora Core 3, OpenOffice, Bugzilla, as well our little Slashcode . The boxes include documentation and the code on CD with the money going back to support the communities building it. Lulu also does a whole bunch of cool stuff around self-publishing for on-demand items.

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  1. Awfully vague descrptions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So pretend that you don't know what Fedora Core is, and try to figure it out from this description:

    The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.

    Colin Charles is a Fedora developer and has previously written countless how-tos, FAQs, tutorials and curricula. He co-authored a Linux desktop guide available via the United Nations Development Program's International Open Source Network.

    In Fedora Core 3: Made Simple, Colin brings his experience together in an easy-to-use guide that stresses learning by doing. Buy the book or the software separately, or get both in a boxed set. Heck, it's up to you. No matter what you buy or why you buy it, most of the profit goes to Colin and the development community.
  2. Re:Support by salutor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A PayPal donation would obviously be better in the sense that it would provide more money to the community in a more direct way, but some people who might not otherwise donate will be motivated by the idea of getting a physical something in exchange for their money. It's sort of like Public Radio offering you a coffee mug or a sweatshirt for your donation.

    Keep in mind that Lulu was founded by Bob Young (Red Hat), so this is not that much of a stretch.

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  3. Updates by tomalpha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd like to know how they deal with updates - new versions, patches. The big OSS projects all have their fair share of vulnerabilities and need constant patching.

    For the less technically oriented end-user, to whom I assume these boxes are pitched, some form of automatic download + patch would be a must.

    Can't find anything on lulu.com that talks about this - without it, the product is going to be dangerous (unpatched vulns galore)...