http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33186,00.html ---- Other companies that expressed interest in the site, though not bids, included Dell, IBM, and Novell, said Fred van Kempen, who registered the Linux.com domain. He declined to say how much any company offered, but did say that the new owner, VA Research, paid "substantially less than the top offer of $5.5 million." ----
A few days ago some 3Dfx job opportunities were posted. Not everyone was thrilled about the fact 3Dfx wanted to employ some Linux developers. Will this discussion repeat, only with the name 3DFX replaced with SGI?
> If slashdot was trying to make money off us > (in a big way) it would turn off the > traditional readership. > Don't you think so?
No. I read/. for the quality of it. I don't see a relationship between quality and making money. It doesn't have to mean both can't live happily along. I'd still read/. if Rob put a few more banners on his site. But maybe I'm not part of this so called 'traditional readership'.
ah well, the silent majority isn't that extreme as discribed in the article at http://www.zdnet.com/talkback/22_33604_139822.html . I remember when the creator of freshmeat.net was flamed when he changed the layout. He took the site down, due to the personal attack of so called hardcore Linux users. Don't take 'em too seriously. This issue about 'violent extreme linux users/advocates' has been addressed on/. (even as we speak) I also remember John Katz writing a piece about it on/.
For a schoolproject I made a Java applet talk to the Oracle 8 dbms for Linux. It worked like a charm. The Oracle dbms was on a 486dx2 66 Linux RH 5.1 box. It took a while to boot, but it worked fine.
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I like the interface. Very slick icons. That Baby Tux image is cool.
The interview with esr was interesting. And check out the user preferences .
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33186,00.html
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Other companies that expressed interest in the site, though not bids, included Dell, IBM, and Novell, said Fred van Kempen, who
registered the Linux.com domain. He declined to say how much any company offered, but did say that the new owner, VA
Research, paid "substantially less than the top offer of $5.5 million."
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A few days ago some 3Dfx job opportunities were posted. Not everyone was thrilled about the fact 3Dfx wanted to employ some Linux developers. Will this discussion repeat, only with the name 3DFX replaced with SGI?
> If slashdot was trying to make money off us
/. for the quality of it. I don't see a relationship between quality and making money. It doesn't have to mean both can't live happily along. I'd still read /. if Rob put a few more banners on his site. But maybe I'm not part of this so called 'traditional readership'.
> (in a big way) it would turn off the
> traditional readership.
> Don't you think so?
No. I read
ah well, the silent majority isn't that extreme as discribed in the article at http://www.zdnet.com/talkback/22_33604_139822.html . /. (even as we speak) I also remember John Katz writing a piece about it on /.
I remember when the creator of freshmeat.net was flamed when he changed the layout. He took the site down, due to the personal attack of so called hardcore Linux users. Don't take 'em too seriously.
This issue about 'violent extreme linux users/advocates' has been addressed on
For a schoolproject I made a Java applet talk to the Oracle 8 dbms for Linux. It worked like a charm. The Oracle dbms was on a 486dx2 66 Linux RH 5.1 box. It took a while to boot, but it worked fine.