The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions
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| GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as
| they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical
| to each other.
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| Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds
| it, the more different they become. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of
| the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole...
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3701421
On the Front Lines with Richard Stallman
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| Working at the MIT AI lab in the 70s gave me the experience of living in a
| free software community. However, from time to time I got a nasty whiff of
| the restrictions of proprietary software, and I did not like it.
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| In 1982, when the old community died, and I faced the prospect of a life of
| using and developing proprietary software. It was so disgusting that I
| refused to stand for it. I decided to escape.
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| [Interviewer:] What did you do to escape?
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| Those events did not happen instantly. It took about a year, and my manner of
| escaping was developing GNU.
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http://rackit.gartnerwebdev.com/2007/09/24/on-the-front-lines-with-richard-stallman/
Related:
In praise of the GPLv3
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| When Stallman released the final draft of GPLv3 on June 1, he told me he had
| decided to include a cut-off date in paragraph 7 of section 11 of the draft
| to make it possible for Novell to continue to distribute software covered
| under GPLv3 as part of its deal with Microsoft. In other words, the man was
| being merciful to a company which has sought to pervert the GPL. He was being
| anything but a software Talib (for the uninformed that's the singular of the
| collective noun Taliban).
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13253&Itemid=1091
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