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“We have had a very good experience with Linux and open source and are looking to assess it more this year in terms of CRM and our intranet.” — Not just a success story, but a progress story for Thrifty and Solutions First.
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“Hi everyone…I’m Rob Linden, aka Rob Lanphier. I’m a relatively new Linden, hired especially to work with the community on open source issues.” — Rob brings a lot of credibility to the opening of Second Life. Congrats to Rob and Linden!
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“A clear sign that free and open source software (FOSS) has become mainstream is the growing number of small consultants who specialize in it.”
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Neil J. Patel is whipping up some very sexy GNOME ideas in his blog — definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for some inspiration. Better yet, the title of his blog derives from one of GNOME’s sacred texts.
links for 2007-02-08
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I am not sure about Thrifty. They consider themselves not a victim of vendor lockin, but if you consider each OS has been made unique (kernel expected maybe) there is no real thing as a not locked environment. Each vendor adds its own flavour to provide that unique value proposition, the difference is the lockin once you fully adopt the proposition
The kernel thrifty runs is a kernel.org kernel with their hardware requirements and 1 patch which is adapted from linux-abi.sf.net to make it run on 2.6.17 for dm-multipathing.
So in some regards, the Thrifty kernel is actually less locked in than the Ubuntu kernel. A kernel.org kernel runs fine on Ubuntu Dapper btw. Its actually a more risky move *not* using a vendor kernel – you then have to maintain security patches yourself.
You couldn’t take an upstream kernel and make it work as easily as we did (aside from the SCO abi shoehorning) without ‘freedom from vendor lockin’. I say this with authority cos I was the one who built the kernel in question