Linux Foundation Purchases Linux.com

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

[lordsilence]

Howtoforge.org has fulfilled that role for a long time which Linux.com aims to do now.

Re:What do you think should be on Linux.com?

[Em Emalb]

how quickly people forget jonkatz. ;-)

Re:Why did Sourceforge have it in the first place?

[retchdog]

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?

[icebraining]

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.

[nsanders]

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

[InfiniteLoopCounter]

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.

nmap -sS -O -v linux.com

Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org/ [nmap.org] )
Initiating Ping Scan at 11:03
Scanning 140.211.167.55 [2 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 11:03, 0.25s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 11:03
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 11:03, 0.73s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 11:03
Scanning fossology.org (140.211.167.55) [1715 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 140.211.167.55
Discovered open port 443/tcp on 140.211.167.55
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 140.211.167.55
SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 42.88% done; ETC: 11:04 (0:00:40 remaining)
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 11:04, 77.09s elapsed (1715 total ports)
Initiating OS detection (try #1) against fossology.org (140.211.167.55)
Retrying OS detection (try #2) against fossology.org (140.211.167.55)
Host fossology.org (140.211.167.55) appears to be up ... good.
Interesting ports on fossology.org (140.211.167.55):
Not shown: 1712 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Device type: general purpose|WAP|switch|storage-misc|print server|remote management|broadband router
Running (JUST GUESSING) : FreeBSD 6.X (91%), Linux 2.6.X (86%), Actiontec Linux 2.4.X (85%), HP embedded (85%), Linksys embedded (85%), Netgear embedded (85%), Buffalo embedded (85%)
Aggressive OS guesses: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (91%), Linux 2.6.24 (Debian) (86%), HP Brocade 4100 switch; or Actiontec MI-424-WR, Linksys WRVS4400N, or Netgear WNR834B wireless broadband router (85%), Buffalo TeraStation NAS device (85%), HP 4200 PSA (Print Server Appliance) model J4117A (85%), HP Onboard Administrator management console (85%), HP Brocade 4Gb SAN switch (85%), Linksys WRV200 wireless broadband router (85%), Linksys WAP54G WAP (85%), Linksys WRT300N wireless broadband router (85%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 87.182 seconds
                      Raw packets sent: 5216 (233.304KB) | Rcvd: 39 (2500B)

Re:Welcome to linux.com

[Anonymous Coward]

For the idiots who don't get the joke.. [zombo.com]

Re:Role of linux.com?

[jgurling]

...Linux is, in a manner of speaking, a whole lot more than Ubuntu

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?

[X0563511]

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?

[Abreu]

I think the linux=ubuntu mindset is cyclical... not too long ago, it used to be linux=redhat