Since free-software as promoted by the FSF is all about freedom and free choice, the developers are free to choose their own way of programming and building projects.
Skipping ahead, Linux HPC clusters now dominate the market. We often hear about the “big ones”, but many small individual or group clusters still exist. I believe, the rapid and disruptive growth was due to the low barriers to entry. You could play with “it” before you committed big resources to a larger system. A simple and effective “try before you buy” proposition.
Mandriva also includes its Control Center app which makes fiddling with settings and administering you machine much easier than the default KDE panels. Another nice touch is that the default Firefox page leads to a collection of resources and links for optimizing Mandriva.
On Thursday, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. released its Red Hat Enterprise MRG platform, three separate subscriptions that collectively add advanced messaging, real-time computing and grid computing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, or RHEL 5.
We can all be quite proud of the enormous progress Linux has made in transforming the embedded OS marketplace from one which was highly fragmented and largely devoid of standards, to an environment based upon a highly functional OS which is a truly open standard: Linux.
There are plenty of companies offering to sell you the latest set-top box or media server for your home theater. However, many of them are tied up with proprietary technologies that limit what a true-hearted tinkerer can do with them. There are other ways. Open source software exists for those with the courage to do it themselves.
Google's Summer of Code is one reason why Google keeps Microsoft executives awake at night.
Summer of Code is one of Google's most active hosted sites for open source development. Google's strategy is clear -- give students a stipend and in return they'll code their tails off and contribute to the open source community.
Now in its fourth year, the project has attracted open source heavyweights like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP and GNU.
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Java Programming
2008-06-22 06:32:02
borgermaster
2008-06-22 10:41:17
Very funny. And there I thought you were against Mono. Go meditate a little about what 'free choice' means.