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Dropcash News

Dropcash News An interesting idea, but I would really think that a separate money raiser for Open Source project bounties should be set up, propably with a cooperation of some existing eMoney provider, like moneybookers.com and it surely must provide lots of way to pay for a particular bounty (PayPal, check, postal money order, bank [...]

Lack of concentration

Today I noticed that last three days I’ve lingered aroung and have done allmost nothing. I mean – I made found some bugs in TikiWiki, filed them, got CVS access, did some more debugging in the stable CVS version, but I just couldn’t quite nail the bug and finish it. Also, I’ve not done much [...]

Git Traffic #1 For 2 May

Git Traffic #1 For 2 May Linus Torvalds said: Did I already happen to mention that I think that the git model is the best model ever, and that I’m just not an incredibly good-looking hunk and becomingly modest, I’m smart too?Davide Libenzi replied, You forgot, *again*, to take your medications !! Now that’s what [...]

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Ars Technica – Reviews – Mac OS X 10.4 TigerWhat would you expect from a review of a point release of a operating system? About the same as you would expect from the point release itself.This one had much more then I exected. First of all the changes are reviewed on a very deep level [...]

LWN: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works

LWN: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works I really hope that this release will work out fine and that it will also demonstrate feasibility of independant arhitecture specific teams doing releases for SCC arhitectures of Debian of post-Sarge. I don’t see OpenOffice.org in the problem package list. Does that mean it works on [...]

The Deamon, the Gnu and the Penguin

The Deamon, the Gnu and the Penguin (chapters 4 & 5)It is really fun to read about the earlyest history of computer software. Especially it is fun to see how for most of the computerized history of the world, the software has been free in all sences of the word.Evolution on networking and text editors [...]

LWN: LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 21, 2005

LWN: LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 21, 2005 Note: This page is currently only available to LWN subscribers (*hint*, *hint*) This issue of LWN has a great insight into Bdale Garbee’s thoughts about Branden and the future of Debian. I am a bit more optimistic then Bdale on this. I think that there is a [...]

Linux.com | Interview: Branden Robinson, new Debian Project Leader

Linux.com | Interview: Branden Robinson, new Debian Project Leader I, for one, welcome our Overfiend overlord. P.S. I acctually voted for him as my first choice in the vote, mostly because I like his ability to break rules, when they start becoming plainly stupid, and to express his opinion, regardless of the consequences or lack [...]