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."

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Quietly coming back to life..

[dualboot]

Until we /.'d it..

Re:Quietly coming back to life..

[houghi]

Links are nowadays posted by people who are looking for traffic for the ads. Those then might link to a blog that might have the link to the original website.

Re:Quietly coming back to life..

[fak3r]

In case the site is down, here's a mirror http://www.invitinghome.com/Mirrors/img/mirror-1534.jpg

Re:Quietly coming back to life..

[million_monkeys]

In case the site is down, here's a mirror http://www.invitinghome.com/Mirrors/img/mirror-1534.jpg

Your mirror doesn't seem to work. Either that, or I've become a vampire without realizing it.

Re:Quietly coming back to life..

[camperslo]

Here's some more penguin news with a bit of history...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797

Re:A long history of attracting nutballs

[amiga3D]

Unlike rational and reasonable people like Steve Ballmer or Steven Jobs?

Re:Targeted Design

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would this be useful for Linux users? They're all using Lynx, as Linux is a command-line-only OS.

Controversial?

[poet]

Good lord.. since when... oh the 90s.... which were.... over a decade ago.

Re:A long history of attracting nutballs

[Hatta]

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.

Re:Targeted Design

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you, asshole. I use telnet.

Follow the bouncing ball:

[fak3r]

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!

Re:A long history of attracting nutballs

[LordLimecat]

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?

Re:Targeted Design

[Penguinisto]

Dude - seriously, "whoosh!"

Besides, I use fread() straight off the network card to get all my website content. Doesn't everybody?

Rational Enough?

[andersh]

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.

Re:Rational Enough?

[mehemiah]

its reasonable to want to beat your competitors, its irrational to want to bankrupt and destroy them in the way it is irrational to want to stab other person in a race with you. I think that this goes for both of them.

Open source can't be hacked

[hawguy]

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.

Re:Targeted Design

[gmhowell]

Dude - seriously, "whoosh!"

Besides, I use fread() straight off the network card to get all my website content. Doesn't everybody?

I hook a flashlight to the fiber link and click it on and off really fast. Network cards are for amateurs.

Re:Targeted Design

[drinkypoo]

I hook a flashlight to the fiber link and click it on and off really fast. Network cards are for amateurs

Fiber? Luxury! I pick up the telephone, dial a modem, and start making bonging noises, followed by hissing... and then a comment appears on Slashdot

Re:Targeted Design

[IceNinjaNine]

Besides, I use fread() straight off the network card to get all my website content. Doesn't everybody?

Only in promiscuous mode, cause I'm a whore. ;)

Re:Targeted Design

[Ginger Unicorn]

But no matter how I juggled the constants, I couldn't get it to result in "carefully" being spelt correctly. So I thought fuck it, it's good enough.