The 2008 Linux and Free Software Timeline

diegocgteleline.es writes "Here is LWN's eleventh annual timeline of significant events in the Linux and free software world for the year. As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year, with great progress in useful software that made our systems better. Of course, there were some of the usual conflicts — patent woes, project politics, and arguments over freedom — but overall, the pace of free software progress stayed on its upwardly increasing trend. 2008 was a year that saw the end of SCO — or not — the rise of Linux-based 'netbooks,' multiple excellent distribution releases, more phones and embedded devices based on Linux, as well as major releases of software we will be using for years (X.org, Python, KDE, ...)."

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Re:The U.S.A. Collapse Timeline +1, Interesting

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Too bad you posted AC. That was a very interesting read. I'm not sure I believe everything in that article, but the point about the U.S. economy being a giant pyramid scheme, built currently on the foriegn economic investment, seems right on.

My Contribution To the Time LIne

[kenp2002]

Jan 3rd 2006 - Installed Gentoo Linux as a firewall+tarpit\snort\IDS\reporting server. Set up scheduled Emerge update world in Crontab
Sept 11th 2007 - rebooted said server moving to 2.6 kernel. Some issues with with portage after reboot but nothing the Gentoo Wiki didn't answer.
Sept 12th 2007 - Went to bar with friends.
Today - no reboots yet, 99.9% uptime for all reported services.