Debian News, Tips, Tricks & More
By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco
Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.
The company has said that third party implementations of its C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) – a language runtime – will be made available under its Community Promise. [...]
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (“Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
Read Entire Article on desktoplinux.com
I just read an article by Matt Hartley on the Datamation Blog titled Building a Linux app store: Can you help?
The point of his article is that there is no definitive application database for Linux apps. Debian, and debian based distribution users have some pretty decent options for finding software in their realm of comfortability [...]
A couple years ago I got a Debian tattoo on my arm and it’s been a point of conversations for geeks and non geeks everywhere I go. It’s not the standard swirl its got a little bit of change to the coloring and some other effects but it still is most definitely a Debian tattoo. [...]
•