Everyone and Their Brother Opens a Linux Site 49
Couple of new Linux Portals to mention:
An anonymous reader sent us a link to
LinuxStart- a yahoo-ish
Linux focused site, and
FaKe wrote in to send
us JustLinux.com.
EmilEifrem sent us
Earthweb's newly announced OpenSourceIT,
which isn't a portal: More like a better designed
LinuxWorld, with
a cheesier name. It Debuts with the standard ESR and RMS
profiles. All of these sites look pretty decent- its pretty
excellent that Linux can support this much content. Anyone
else remember when it was just Me and Scoop? We've come a long
way. Very cool.
Nice Caption... (Score:1)
How long before they are all owned by AOL? (Score:1)
It's still just you and scoop! (Score:1)
henri
Re: Everyone and Their Brother Opens a Linux Site (Score:1)
Not to nitpick, but "everyone" is singular, and "their" is plural... So, for plurality agreement, it should be "...his brother" or possibly "...his/her brother" :).
Alex Bischoff
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Looks like another "we'll have more RSN" site. (Score:1)
Developers don't want to read news, they want code. I didn't find a site I liked, so I created yet another open source site:
Links to more than 3000 applications, libraries, functions, faqs, etc.
Don't bother checking every 5 minutes for news. But if you want code. It's there.
Maybe in the queen's english... (Score:1)
Language is constantly evolving. What a wonderful euphemism for 'language use is degenerating thanks to those too lazy to use the language properly.' Ask a linguist? A real one, or one cranked out by the diploma mill universities we have today, where any idiot with 10 thousand dollars can receive a piece of paper certifying he could remember things long enough to take a test?
[Insert 3 hour diatribe on the decline of Western Civilization here.]
I wonder how many /. readers have a linux site? (Score:1)
TedC
Welcome to dilution (Score:1)
I remember before there was even a Slashdot or a Freshmeat, it really wasn't that long ago.
This happens when any underground movement begins to become popular. It is the way the dominant culture controls dissent. I liken it to the Chinese and the Mongols. Every so often, the mongols would kinda go, "Hey, World Domination! Let's go Kick Micr^H^H^H^H Chinese Butt." and the Chinese would kind of yawn, maybe fight them a little, and sometimes the Mongols would win. But it didn't matter. In two generations, the Mongols weren't Mongols anymore. They had given up riding little ponies, and hordeing, and settled down to be nice middle class Chinese shopkeepers, and every once in a while some old timer would grouse about the good old days, and how it felt to have a sword in your hand and the wind in your hair, but the kids would just ignore them, cause it didn't fit their (Chinese) world view.
Okay, for the slow, Open_Source == Mongols. Closed_Source == Chinese. The thing that makes a Mongol a Mongol, or a Hacker a Hacker, isn't the little pony, or the code, it's culture. The Chinese beat the Mongols through cultural dilution. Any movement with ideals that run counter to the dominant culture of today runs the same risk. As it's popularity soars, the percentage of people that hold it's core values decreases.
Now, you might say the Internet makes this argument irrelevant. The old timers will still have their forum in which to pass on their values to the next generation of larval hackers. The GPL will insure the code stays open.
Wait, which public license was that? It's happening already. I have this image in my head, from say, 20 years after a succesfull Mongol invasion. Hordes of young Chinese wandering around imitating the Mongol style, wearing leather, and little pointy helmets, growing their hair shaggy, without a clue in the world what it means to be a Mongol. They just know it looks cool and it pisses off their parents.
So how does a numerically and socially inferior culture maintain itself while surrounded by a larger, arrogant and prosletyzing culture? I don't know for sure, but I know who to ask, and my Jewish friends all say you have to practice memetic hygene (okay, I'm paraphrasing.) You need ritual intertwined with daily life locking in the ideas of cultural importance. In Judaism, there is an interesting story behind every seemingly meaningless ritual. There is also a focus on purity (khashering, the dietary laws, etc.) Which, I think, has helped Jews keep memetic purity through the ages, and the long, lonely times in hostile lands.
I think that hackers realized the need for ritual and purity early on. Not consciously, maybe, but I see it in Hacker culture and lore. So I do beleive that Hacker culture will survive the dilution of the mass culture. Even if the mass culture rips Linux away from them (A very likely outcome) Hacker culture will survive, and if necassary, create a whole new OS from scratch, better than before.
Nice Caption...? (Score:1)
Why did this come up anonymously?
Weird...
I think that Rob may be messing around under the hood right now.
Shortage of good domain names... (Score:1)
-Eric
okay, I'll type some more... (Score:1)
greg
why do we need so many linux portals? (Score:1)
d'oh! (Score:1)
If you're going to be bothered about non-gender pronouns then why the hell are you using everyone and their brother ???
*sigh*
linuxstart is one of your banners (Score:1)
Something about this dosent set right with me... there is a banner promoting them on your site, yet you just found out about them now.
hmmmm.
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The art of flying is throwing yourself at the ground...
1800 domains and counting (Score:1)
By my counting, we are now up to 1800 registered Linux domains in .com alone!
See http://www.base.com/gordoni/linux.html [base.com] for the complete list (plus some other useful Linux market intelligence I have gathered).
I wonder how many /. readers have a linux site? (Score:1)
ok its fixed (Score:1)
please go use linuxstart.com
dont use linuxstart.com's free email (Score:1)
Just take my advice and dont use it til they get it fixed, it's pretty huge.
dont use linuxstart.com's free email (Score:1)
Just take my advice and dont use it til they get it fixed, it's pretty huge.
Shortage of good domain names... (Score:1)
Actually Im surprised that reg.tm isnt registrered yet.
linuxstart is one of your bann.(last night for me) (Score:1)
bye the way I also have my own domain which is where I had Lancaster Co Linux User Group untill I found hypermart.net which is now hosting LCLUG. They give you cgi & 20 megs for the cost of a banner at the top of your page(free). If you own your own domain you can have BLABLABLA.org hosted by them with a banner of course for free(what a deal).
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Joshua Curtis
Lancaster Co. Linux Users Group
CmdrEgo? (Score:1)
JustLinux.com running Slash variant? (Score:1)
Anyways, i looked at the articles and clicked More.. - surprisingly.. a comment structure extremely similar to the old
CmdrTaco: good job on all the new features. Slashdot will always be the #1 Linux News site, who cares about those portals.
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FaKe
"wERD."
Maybe in the queen's english... (Score:1)
This portal... (Score:1)
and some other new goodies are under our belt, we have been working on a complete gui based linux for a bit now (included gui install) we have been working for on some modem drivers, video drivers and a bunch of other code to help bring linux to all.. (such as winmodem support, dsp based sound cards and what not)
we look forward to your visits, and let us know what you think!
horray for boobies
Linuxstart (Score:1)
We carry, LinuxGames, LinuxToday, Freshmeat, Slashdot and many other headlines included linux.announce and will be offering our own search
engine and other goodies soon..
plus there is free tech support
www.linux-support.net (Score:1)
now where's my endorsement fee for giving props to the new site, Marko? i usually charge $1000/endorsement - just donate it to GNU as usual.
Second that. (Score:1)
Good site.
How long before they are all owned by AOL? (Score:1)
I can see it now.
MSNLU
Microsuck Network for Linux Users
If you can beat em, buy em out.
JustLinux seems pretty slick for beginners (Score:1)
Everybody and their brother... (Score:1)
But think about how many sites there are out there dedicated to MS products... yuck. Can you imagine being a borg groupie?
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heh, i remember... (Score:1)
I come for the news... but if actually want to know something I go to my local LDP mirror.
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Linuxstart (Score:1)
Also.. (Score:2)
The actual look of the site will probably be something like this [linuxonline.org].
okay, I'll type some more... (Score:2)
I can type some more, if you like. :-)
Running a Linux news page with about 50 readers may seem like a waste of time, but it's not. From August 31, 1998 through the end of February, 1999, I helped 3 Windows users get Linux installed and configured for the first time. I didn't know any of these people prior to them sending me email via a link on my page. So if the trend continues, I will have helped 6 people per year become new Linux users. I don't want to sound like I'm selling Amway, but if everyone did this we could drastically increase the size of the Linux user base in less than a year. Just a thought.
TedC
CmdrEgo? (Score:2)
Cough. I don't think so:
Linux Gazzette
Linux Now!
Linux toybox
Uncounted BBSes before the 'net
Linuxstart (Score:2)
The problem now, is, what to do when searching for linux news?! I've got slashdot, linuxtoday, lwn, metalab, freshmeat, and now all these portals (well, Linuxstart carries Linuxtoday and Slashdot news...and Linuxtoday carries Freshmeat and Slashdot...and, well you get the idea). If any of them could reach the customization of Yahoo!, I'd be all over that...or better yet if Linuxtoday, Freshmeat, and Slashdot could become content providers to MyYahoo...oh the options the options.
Jesse
Why this won't work. (Score:2)
Some of us, are infect a dumb crowd,
using Linux just because of the hype.
but the most of don't need portals.
we know what we want to do.
These peope think: "hmmmm.... linux has 7 million reachable users, thats a good target, let's get them".
It won't work.
Portals are made for internet newbies, and these sites never thought that linux users arent such.
if a linux newbie is looking for info, he'll search the ldp.
if he wants news, he'll go to slashdot/linuxtoday.
want jokes? he'll go to segfault.
need files? freshmeat is the place. (not linuxberg)
the unix way is to spererate different services,
and that's what they don't understand.
(slashdot may be regarded as a portal to some people, but as a recent poll showed,
for most, it's just a news/discussion site)
on the future, though,
when there will be many "just-for-the-hype" newbies,
that come from windows, yahoo, tucows, and zdnet,
these portals will have audience.
also the saturation of the market with so many linux sites,
is not good for anyone.
on a different note,
there are many cool services in justlinux (the one i checked out).
such as email forwarding, dns for dynamic ip's (that's a rather good idea) and redirection.
too bad all of the domains end with a
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