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Internet.com Buys Out LinuxStart.com
Tristan Louis noted that at some point Internet.com announced their purchase of LinuxStart. LinuxStart, according to the press release is "a
leading resource and search engine for the Linux community providing Linux
information, tools, applications and more." If you're looking for Linux* domain name opportunities, hurry because linuxninja, linuxtomorrow, linuxtv, linuxpenguin, linuxbob, linuxpaper, linuxpop, linuxtraffic, linuxvision, linuxphone,
and of course, linuxfood.com are already taken. No we're not kidding.
OK, I'll take a shot at guessing what these are (without peeking, of course):
linuxtraffic - ML archive
linuxtomorrow - Linux-related press releases
linuxtv - TV applicatins (like XawTV). Or a Linux-based settop box.
linuxpenguin - Stuffed penguins
linuxbob - Fnor!
linuxpaper - Paper as in "newspaper", perhaps?
linuxpop - A free mail server
linuxvision - Ditto with linuxtv above.
linuxfood - Penguin mints and free pizza
And, finally:
linuxninja - Bill Gates's crack team of asssassination experts.
Hundreds of linux domains taken
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
Everybody is attempting to secure loads of linux* domainnames because they think a good domain name is important for reaching a large audience. The most popular sites however are probably slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, userfriendly.org and some others that don't begin with linux (ok there are ofcourse some exceptions) so in the end - content matters.
Just kidding
LinuxBob?
Isn't that the new Microsoft distro?
-J
I think not...(*poof*)
...are pretty good business it would seem. What are Internic / NetSol's numbers for the past few years? $70 for a database entry...
+&x
What we need is a Linux specific TLD: lnx. Of course we'd need to relagate all these investors to a subdomain to keep them out of the way: wannabe.lnx or fauxgeek.lnx perhaps.
One thing I found (and I own a ton of domains, although no linux ones, I just like to use em for different stuff). Is that if you are patient and you really want a domain and the person is just a squatter, you'll get it when tthey either have to pay money for it the first time, or , when they have to renew. It's already happeneing now. I got two domains I really wanted just by waiting.
You can check if money is owed on the domain by going to the registar and pretending to pay thier dues (but don't complete the transaction). I know this works with netsol, I'm not sure about the rest.
Chris DiBona
--
Grant Chair, Linux Int.
VP, SVLUG
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
What's in a name? A lot these days, thanks to hype.
Beyond that? Really not all that much in most cases. Agilent's an HP spinoff. Ascend's a dismal failure that was bought by Lucent which was broken off from AT&T. But what about slashdot? No history, save for chips&dip. Freshmeat? History? What history?
linuxninja.com? What's that for? Some new karate studio that runs their finances on Linux?
I don't know about all of you, but I'm about ready to get AWAY from Linux. Why? Partly so I can honestly say 'no, I don't run it,' thusly deflecting in excess of 50 outright STUPID questions a day. Why else?
Probably because most of all, development has been cheapened. Greatly. I look at the codebase daily - not ac, not any silly fragmented tree - the codebase Linus okays. 2.4 by the end of Q1 2000? Does anyone reading this even have any clue whatsoever of how long the world ran 1.2.13 as stable and 1.3.x as unstable? I'm going to have to guess not, seeing as everyone is hyped up about 2.4.
Look, flat out, there isn't enough real changes to warrant a 2.4.x versioning. Period. And the development is so rushed and frenetic, it makes me physically ill to look at the i386 tree some days. It's rediculous. I see code without any bug checking, with typos, with just generic brokenness all over.
I'm not saying Linux isn't stable; it definitely is. But things are going too fast, being too rushed. Whether or not technology is going fast, things like OS development just aren't meant to go fast. Linux simply will begin to fail at attempts to become a mature OS if such frenetic development continues.
The distributions aren't helping either. I'm starting to lose faith in even Debian. Everyone's rushing to egcs AKA gcc 2.9x.x ad infinitum. glibc 2.1 is now the norm, even though it *should* be glibc 3.x due to the fact that it's not back-compatible in the *least* with 2.0x. It's breaking kernel compiles with bad asm in the code, or bad asm generation by egcs.
As much as I hate to say it, Windows is a mature OS in many ways. No, not Win95 itself, but it's core, MS-DOS. (Whether or not MS will admit it.) MS-DOS was originally developed over 10 years ago. In 10 years, it has had a slow but steady development tree (ignoring the 6.0/6.2/6.21/6.22 fiasco) and is actually reasonably stable. (It's the GUI itself that is unstable.) Linux is now attempting to forego all conventional wisdom even *further* and simply rush development. That's what happened with the Windows 95 GUI, in case you all forgot.
Now, look at XFree86. XFree86 has many servers that I would bet my life on - especially the SVGA server - and they have followed a very controlled development schedule. New servers don't go in till they've been debugged, and they don't go in till the next minor.sub version; ie, 3.3.4 to 3.3.5 would allow servers to be added. (Now this is what I've heard and seen - XF86's policies may differ in actuality.)
We don't have anything to warrant a 2.4 kernel. I'm sorry, we just don't. I've talked back to people like Linus before, and told them they're wrong. And I'm doing so right now. To go to 2.4 is wrong. Period. Flat out wrong. To claim Linux already as a mature OS is wrong. Linux is based loosely around what is arguably the most mature OS class to ever exist - Unix. AIX is a mature OS. HP-UX is a mature OS. Solaris is NOT a mature OS. Linux is NOT a mature OS.
I'm not saying Linux isn't stable - it is. It's very stable. For certain tasks, I'd certainly bet my life on Linux. But it's not mature by any stretch of the imagination. Some of it's core components - binutils, etc - are certainly mature. That doesn't necessarily make an OS mature.
I'm taking any news on Linux with a grain of salt anymore. Yes, I got in on the VA Linux IPO. Yes, I made a very respectable amount of money - a superb return on investment - and I think RedHat is grossly overvaluated. But nonetheless, Linux has turned into a hype circus. With 2.4 being rushed, distributions moving to things that I wouldn't dare trust even half as much as a Windows box, and so on, I'm scared. I'm very scared.
I've been using Linux a good number of years. Throughout those years, things have gone faster and faster, and I see things spiralling out of control. Now maybe it's just me, but I'd hate to see Linux fall over it's own feet as it tries to be the first to the 'mature OS' finish line, or any finish line for that matter.
Just my $0.02USD.
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