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Wikia Acquires Grub, Releases it Under Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-fodder-for-the-cannons dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the original visionary distributed search project, from LookSmart and released it under an open source license for the first time in four years. Grub operates under a model of users donating their personal computing resources towards a common goal, and is available for download and testing."

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  1. FIST SPORT by ringbarer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh fuck! Does this mean I have to read [Citation Needed] every time I boot up?

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  2. good grub by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    let's eat!

  3. Lunch Time by n1ckml007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's funny, I ALSO just acquired some grub, yum yum.

  4. Re:So? by truthsearch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll be even more excited if they do work on the searching algorithms, which is what makes or breaks search engines, not the amount of content they have.

    So you're saying it's not the size that matters, but how they use it.

    Interesting. I'm sure I've heard this somewhere before...

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  5. Interesting by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    I just loaded this new grub on my system. I got a strange new boot menu:

    1. Fedora Core 7 (redirected from Red Hat)
      [Note: This selection may be too technical for the average user. Please help revise to improve.]
    2. Microsoft Windows Vista (redirected from Longhorn)
      [Note: This entry has been locked from new and anonymous users due to ongoing controversy. See also: WGA]
    3. Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (redirected from Win98)
      [Note: This OS requires cleanup to conform to quality standards. Please get involved.]
    4. FreeBSD 6.2
      [Note: Link appears dead. This has been tagged since July, 2007]
    5. MSDOS 5.11(redirected from DOS)
      [This operating system is a stub. Please help to expand and improve it. This entry has been tagged since 1981]
    Use the up and down arrow keys to make a selection, press Enter to boot.
  6. Re:Uh-oh? by anilg · · Score: 3, Funny
    This might be bad news for Google.

    Not if you use smileys, it isn't! ;) ;) :)

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  7. Release by EnsilZah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but in what form are you planning to release it?

    1. Re:Release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      No need to release that.... Microsoft already beat you to it.

      Dude I need to go take a Vista.......

    2. Re:Release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Binary blob.

    3. Re:Release by Mathness · · Score: 4, Funny

      It will be released as public domain, delivery will be as a Fast Universal Dump and Gas Exchange (fudge) packet [1] over a Wireless Connection (WC) with a water protocol to a local STP node (sewage treatment plant). At the STP node it will be processed for redistribution.

      [1] including several pamphlet with Rorschach-like art.

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    4. Re:Release by iknowcss · · Score: 3, Funny

      There's a joke in here somewhere involving a "tarball", but I don't think I want to go there.

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