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Linux is getting more bloated

August 7, 2008

You can’t argue with facts like these.

Jeff Jones posted a blog entry to celebrate Red Hat fixing their 1000th unique security vulnerability. He also draws attention to a Red Hat post on their “Truth Happens” blog back in August, which itself quotes a post on Lxer.com.
Jeff posts quarterly statistics on his blog that show how many vulnerabilities have been patched for various operating [...]

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Free Software Advocates Resorting To Graffiti

January 24, 2007

Someone at the Free Software Foundation seems to think that an effective means of promoting free software is to actively campaign against Microsoft’s new Vista operating system, and created the Bad Vista website. I personally think this is somewhat like negative campaigns in policital races – attack the opposition rather than promote your own strengths.
As [...]

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Firefox v Debian… DING! DING DING

October 12, 2006

Linux.com has written about the ongoing disagreement between Debian and Mozilla over the inclusion of Firefox in the next version of Debian.I think this quote sums it up best:
Debian’s Dorland says the whole process has been “annoyingly bureaucratic and is completely unprecedented in the Free Software community.”
The article goes on to say:
He agrees that renaming [...]

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