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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. I can finally boot without using google. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    great.

  2. Meh... by lixee · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Real mean use Lilo. Oh, wait...nevermind.

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    1. Re:Meh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Unix is case-sensitive you dipstick.

  3. Re:FIST SPORT by Hatta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish someone would acquire the GRUB, and close it. That piece of crap has caused me more pain than any other open source software. If lilo broke, well just grab a boot disk and rerun it. When (not if) grub breaks, god help you trying to figure out what to do.

    I admit, grub is nice when it automagically works. The problem is when it doesn't. GRUB failures are the only reason I reinstall operating systems anymore.

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