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Linux.org Quietly Comes Back To Life
jfruh writes "The venerable Linux.org site quietly relaunched some weeks ago, offering much of the original useful content on Linux as well as some new articles. The site is still associated with Michael McLagen, a somewhat controversial figure due to the fights around the Linux Standards Association back in the late '90s. McLagen has not responded to requests for comments on the relaunched site."
Oh wait, that's just too easy.
Until we /.'d it..
McLagen has not responded to requests for comments on the relaunched site.
Now that would be an epic /. interview article. Unless one of the ground rules was "the first rule about fight club is we don't talk about standard linux, err fight club"
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
As a technical user who uses Linux for many things, if there's one thing I've always wished more pages would have, it's a navigation bar that floats at the top of the page no matter where I scroll.
The fact that pressing Page Up and Page Down buttons to scroll ends up skipping a few lines of the page content is a nice bonus.
Unlike rational and reasonable people like Steve Ballmer or Steven Jobs?
...yawn.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Site like howtoforge nixcraft and Linux foundation (official site of Linux) and others have done a great job. On other hand Q and A site like serverfault is a great for *nix problem. Why bother about linux.org? Just go to google and search..
Good lord.. since when... oh the 90s.... which were.... over a decade ago.
Get your PostgreSQL here: http://www.commandprompt.com/
Controversial compared to who?
Steve "Developers! Developers! Developers!' Ballmer? Careful-- or he might throw a chair at me.
Or Steve "I invented rounded boxes" Jobs? His boxes were perfect, and anyone who disagrees is just holding it wrong.
There's a lot more controversy around either Bill Gates (super villain or super philanthropist) or Steve Jobs (hippest person who ever lived, or megalomanical asshole) than anyone I can think of in the Linux community.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
http://www.linux.org/ -> http://twitter.com/LinuxDotOrg -> http://twitter.com/rlsteelman/status/197909427179884544 -> http://twitter.com/@rlsteelman (Ronald Steelman) -> http://www.ronaldsteelman.com/
"Welcome to CodeIgniter! The page you are looking at is being generated dynamically by CodeIgniter. If you would like to edit this page you'll find it located at: application/views/welcome_message.php"
Maybe his first article should be about setting up a site with CodeIgniter...or not!
fak3r.com
It does make a person want to start dual-booting again.
It does say that it's an "alpha release", so perhaps we'll see local accounts or OpenID login in the future. Requiring a Facebook account to login to linux.org seems like it might alienate a number of people.
coding is life
Is the site notable for anything else than the highly sought for domain name?
Maybe its just the computer field in general. Have you ever seen as much angst as when Microsoft or Canonical changes some small widget in their GUI?
Steve: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS /CHAIR
Steve: GET OUTTA HERE
Steve: GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Steve: I WILL SPEND EVERY DOLLAR THAT APPLE HAS TO BANKRUPT AND DESTROY GOOGLE. THEY ARE THIEVES!!!
Do I need to continue?
Yes, please do. Those are not very good examples, they're stories that prove that people act irrational at times. I'm not sure that qualifies as "irrational" in general. Look at their work instead of tabloid headlines.
After all, did Steve continue to throw chairs at work? Did they launch Microsoft Chairs XP? I suppose he has a temper, but how did that affect his business decisions? It does not seem to have been very detrimental? Microsoft is still pretty solid.
Steve Jobs' desire to bankrupt and destroy Google is hardly irrational, it's quite logical to want to beat your competitor(s). As for how he said it, he was a show man, was he not? Did Apple in fact spend every Dollar they had?
They're certainly "characters" we remember, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
I love the "testimonial" in the Latest News box from Pivatejetscharter.com that sounds like it was written by a Linux marketing specialist:
http://www.linux.org/article/view/privatejetscharter-net-why-we-love-linux
Open Source software gave us an extra level of security and speed that just wasn’t available through proprietary software. Our website has unique demands and we designed customized security for it that we are constantly changing and updating. Unlike static proprietary software that can be studied and then hacked in mass, attacking unique open source sites just isn’t profitable and it is much more difficult.
Proprietary software is static and easily studied and hacked. Open source sites are unique and can't be hacked in mass.
sorry, but this site is ASS. anything to do with facebook is ASS.. slashdot is guilty of this as well.
I don't take that kind of talk at its face value. On the other hand it was deeply personal for Jobs, what he really meant and felt is not for us to speculate about. If Jobs truly had put Apple on the line [to destroy Google], that would change things. He didn't.
Steve: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS Steve: GET OUTTA HERE /CHAIR
Steve: GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE Steve: I WILL SPEND EVERY DOLLAR THAT APPLE HAS TO BANKRUPT AND DESTROY GOOGLE. THEY ARE THIEVES!!!
Do I need to continue?
"I WILL SPEND EVERY DOLLAR THAT MICROSOFT HAS TO BANKRUPT APPLE" er., wasn't that the latest headline? Like peas in a pod, brother...