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http://digg.com/programming/dev_hello_world_A_Simple_Introduction_to_De…
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2007/07/05/devhelloworld-a-si…

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Use_ReiserFS_or_I_will_F_n_kill_you_t_shirt_…
http://shinola.org/pages//posts/free-hans-t-shirts175.php
http://www.cafepress.com/reiserfs

Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher
Number 9: Forensic Entomologist
Number 8: Olympic Drug Tester

Number 7: Gravity Research Subject
Number 6: Microsoft Security Grunt
Number 5: Coursework Carcass Preparer
Number 4: Garbologist
Number 3: Elephant Vasectomist
Number 2: Oceanographer
Number 1: Hazmat Diver
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/printerfriendly/science/0203101256a23110vg…
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/27/0018252&from=rss

OS Family  #    Share % Rmax Sum (GF)  	Rpeak Sum (GF)  	Processor Sum
Linux 	   389 	77.80 % 3118060 	4809959 	615612
Unix 	   60 	12.00 % 532647  	728573  	120394
Mixed 	   42 	8.40 % 	1194473 	1496163 	469052
BSD Based  4 	0.80 % 	52899   	59186   	5952
Mac OS 	   3 	0.60 % 	32989   	53008   	6296
Windows    2 	0.40 % 	15518   	36357   	3808
Totals 	   500 	100% 	4946586.05 	7183245.39 	1221114

http://www.top500.org/stats/list/29/osfam
http://top500.org/lists/2007/06
http://top500.org/lists/2007/06/highlights

The release consists of more than 17 million lines of code and the contributions of over 310 open source developers located in 19 different countries. The 2006 release, code named Callisto, involved 10 project teams, 7 million lines of code, and 260 open-source developers in 12 countries. This is the fourth year in a row the Eclipse community has shipped a major release on schedule.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,129556.shtml

They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software.

Costly corporate kit, like RAID arrays and 15k FC drives, aren’t used. Yet they do more work in an hour than most companies do in a year.

Google’s IT capabilities are a modern wonder of the world. Underneath the complexity though are just three simple rules. Rules that no enterprise data center (EDC) would ever think of following.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=150

With antiquated components flooding the surplus-parts market and free operating systems only a click away, building a fully functional computer has never been such a bargain. No, the $72 PC won’t replace your new dual-core, Vista-shredding laptop. But with its compact size and solid-state components (no hard drive or CD drive), it’s perfect for building into custom enclosures and for specific tasks like Web surfing or playing games. The computer boots from a USB flash drive running an operating system called Damn Small Linux that can handle just about any job.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/157a2ea4fc033110vgnvcm1000004eecbccd…

Last week, more than 230 Linux leaders converged on Google's Mountain View, Calif. campus to discuss the most pressing issues for Linux, at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Today, the Linux Foundation released a statement summarizing the event's main accomplishments, and declared the event a success.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9613626182.html

German companies are world leaders in the use of Open Source software. In a survey of IT procurement officers from Germany, Great Britain, and the US/Canada, 59 percent of those in Germany said that they use OSS in their companies. The figures were far lower in Great Britain and the US/Canada at 48 and 38 percent, respectively.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91447

Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to research.

WatchMouse, a Dutch firm that monitors server performance, based its research on a survey of over 1,500 European websites. The company says that, although the websites it surveyed were more frequently based on Microsoft's IIS web server platform running Windows than on Apache running Linux, the latter option performed better in terms of both uptime and load time.
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"Even though the companies in our study seem to prefer Windows over Linux, our research shows they would be better off using Linux/Apache-based websites," said WatchMouse's chief technology officer, Mark Pors.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39287637,00.htm

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Microsoft dismissed Linux for years. Then, they sneered at it. Now, they're working with it.

Red Hat's wonderful Truth Happens video ends with the famous Mohandas Gandhi quote, "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." It's exactly right.

To me, the Linux/Microsoft deals not only make sense, they show that we are in the last stage. Linux is winning, and Microsoft is acknowledging it. After all, if Microsoft didn't have to deal with Linux as something like an equal, why would they bother to make agreements at all?
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6099316851.html

The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft.
http://www.slate.com/id/2168419/nav/tap3/rss

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/open-source-life-how-the-op…

http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/warning_a_linux_commercial

Google's Chris DiBona: "I would love to get either NVIDIA and ATI to actually give us the specs on the drivers we want or let's just reverse engineer everything and do it ourselves... you guys have got to open this up because it will just get uglier and uglier and uglier
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Google_Talks_Open_Source_ATI_NVIDIA_Drivers
http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTg0MA

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/06/cool-computer-case-mods.html

Google was founded in 1998 -- less than 10 years ago! The company went public in August 2004 and has already captured a market capitailzation of $160.6 billion.
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Google has an incredible opportunity to race up to a $500 billion market capitaization within the next five years if not sooner, and it will be bigger than Microsoft...
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/06/09/google-will-be-bigger-than-mic…

Ubuntu Web Edition - Wubuntu! See for yourself :)
http://wubuntu.weejewel.net/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wubuntu

Programming the LOL way.
All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.
http://lolcode.com/

IBM said today it will make its framework for modeling infectious diseases available as open-source code and data to aid scientists, researchers and public health officials in predicting the spread of pandemics and crafting effective responses.
http://www.govhealthit.com/article102945-06-08-07-Web

Podcast of Grant Robertson and Alex Hung, two guys with a boatload of Windows and Mac experience, who have been trying out Ubuntu Linux. We hope to offer you a little insight and advice. But mostly, we hope that you can learn from our mistakes.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/06/07/switching-to-ubuntu-linux-downl…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Switching_to_Ubuntu_Linux_Download_Squad_Swi…