links for 2008-01-18
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This is a *very* insightful post on the problems of building and maintaining an open-source community, in this case that of the Gentoo Linux distribution. One hopes that those in a position to bring Gentoo back on track , the Genoo developers, read this p
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Glynn Moody on Sun’s acquisition of MySQL. I share his doubts that executing s/LAMP/SAMP/ is possible..
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A remarkable in-depth analysis by Redmonk’s Steve O’Grady of Sun’s acquisition of MySQL produced in a remarkably short time, within a day of the announce. Especially notable are its open publication and the large number of cited links. Keep up the good w
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Good short history of Red Hat, supplier of the Linux distribution used by the OLPC XO Laptop. Michael Tiemann, mentioned in the article, is a fellow owner of an XO laptop.