Linux Foundation Purchases Linux.com 231
darthcamaro and several other readers have noted that the Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com from SourceForge Inc. (Slashdot's corporate parent). The Linux Foundation (employer of Linus Torvalds) will take over the editorial and community stewardship for the site; SourceForge will continue to supply advertising on it. "[Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim] Zemlin says the Linux Foundation wants to build a collaborative forum where Linux users can share ideas and get information on the Linux operating system. A beta of the site will be released in the next few months. ... Linux.com is being redesigned as a central source for Linux software, documentation and answers regardless of platforms, including server, desktop/netbook, mobile and embedded areas." What do you think should be on Linux.com?
howtoforge.org does that just fine (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What do you think should be on Linux.com? (Score:5, Informative)
how quickly people forget jonkatz. ;-)
Re:Why did Sourceforge have it in the first place? (Score:3, Informative)
They most likely had already a free sub-license for the trademark: http://www.linuxmark.org/ [linuxmark.org]
Revoking a nominally perpetual license, in order to take over someone's website, would be rather questionable...
Re:What do you think should be on Linux.com? (Score:3, Informative)
Well, gnu.linux.com is just a subdomain of linux.com, so there's still hope! Btw, underscores on URL are major fail.
domain not sold.. was given. (Score:5, Informative)
The article never said it was sold and I know that it wasn't. It was given by Sourceforge to the LF. But hey, this is slashdot and headlines almost always are incorrect :-)
Re:That's fine and all (Score:2, Informative)
It is probably running Linux [netcraft.com] and not a Windows Server. Really, now. Why would linux.com not run Linux servers?
When I tried the command the parent posted output for, I get something quite different.
Re:Welcome to linux.com (Score:2, Informative)
For the idiots who don't get the joke.. [zombo.com]
Re:Role of linux.com? (Score:2, Informative)
To be certain, Linux is also a whole lot less than Ubuntu, given that it's just the kernel.
That why I say "in a manner of speaking". Of course the kernel is less, when taken in isolation. But Ubuntu is "just" a desktop/notebook/server OS, an example of the Linux kernel at work. Linux on the other hand can be seen where Ubuntu is not, and provides for a much greater outreach than Ubuntu alone.
And for what it's worth, I use Ubuntu as my primary OS and would consider myself a fan.
Re:What do you think should be on Linux.com? (Score:4, Informative)
Wrong. Linux is Linux is Linux... GNU is not a part of it.
Sure, they tend to go hand in hand, but I would offer that your hand and your arm are not the same thing (though they usually go together).
It's GNU/Linux because it's a GNU system running on/under the Linux kernel.
Re:Role of linux.com? (Score:4, Informative)
I think the linux=ubuntu mindset is cyclical... not too long ago, it used to be linux=redhat