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[News] Linux Test Drive Opens Up, Drupal 6 Released

  • Subject: [News] Linux Test Drive Opens Up, Drupal 6 Released
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:52:39 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Not accepting early adopters...

http://linuxtestdrive.org/

Drupal 6.0 released

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| After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the 
| world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues 
| have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are 
| evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and 
| maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development 
| framework. Further, from bug fix to feature request, these issues 
| follow-through on the Drupal project's continued commitment to deliver 
| flexibility and power to themers and developers.       
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http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0


Related:

A Big Drop in the Bucket for Drupal

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| Apparently, the days when a computer science graduate student can invent some 
| cool Web software and raise a few million dollars to build a company around 
| it are not over. Brand new (less than a month old) North Andover, MA, startup 
| Acquia announced yesterday that it’s raised $7 million to market software and 
| services in support of the popular Web publishing system Drupal, invented by 
| Dries Buytaert, a PhD candidate at the University of Ghent in Belgium.     
| 
| Like the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, and the MySQL 
| database system, Drupal is a free, open-source program with a large community 
| of volunteer developers and users. And Acquia’s CEO, Jay Batson, says it will 
| remain so. Rather than creating and selling a proprietary version of Drupal—
| or “forking” the system, in geek speak—Acquia will work on specialized 
| distributions of the software and help organizations deploy it on a larger 
| scale. “We will be to Drupal what Red Hat is to Linux,” Batson says.      
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http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/20/a-big-drop-in-the-bucket-for-drupal/


Related:

Drupal developer bags $7 million

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| Announcing US$7 million in first round founding from North Bridge Venture 
| Partners, Sigma Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Buytaert and Jay 
| Batson, former CEO and founder of Pingtel, hope to steer their Drupal spun 
| startup Acquia deeper into the enterprise.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547664640&rid=-50


Open-source tools open democracy's doors

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| According to a Vancouver Web guru, "You can't build a free and open society 
| using proprietary software." 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Nelson said Drupal started when a Belgian named Dries Buytaert was looking at 
| developing an on-line bulletin-board-style system for the co-op he was living 
| in, one that would enable people to exchange messages. Buytaert, then a 
| university student, still maintains a Web site at buytaert.net/ and, 
| according to Nelson, released the Drupal codebase under a GNU licence, 
| meaning it conforms to open source.     
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http://www.straight.com/article-117320/open-source-tools-open-democracys-doors

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