KlikIt-Linux 0.1-7B
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| KlikIt Linux is based on Kubuntu 7.04, taking advantages of many of its best
| features, and then adds its own touches such as many multimedia options that
| are either built in or available with a couple of clicks from the desktop,
| making it fun to interact with just like the KlikIt community.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/254874/
Related:
The Little Engine That Could
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| I was as upset about this deal as many others were. I even had a phone call
| with Kevin Carmony regarding the matter.
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| Well, at one point on the forums, Kevin Carmony told some upset members that
| if they did not like the way things were, they can start their own distro and
| see how it goes. So, former Freespire Leadership Board member Chris Medico
| assembled a team, of which I was honored to be asked to be a part of, which
| he lovingly calls Freedom Force. Within weeks, this new project, based on
| Kubuntu, had an Alpha. The project is called KlikIt Linux.
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| We decided community is as important, if not more important, than technology.
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| Anyway, within a short time our community grew to 50, then 100, then more. It
| has not grown by us marketing. It has been organic word of mouth in Microsoft
| Software forums, Xandros Foums, Linspire, PCLOS, Mint, Kubuntu, etc. The word
| keeps spreading, people like it, and they like the community.
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http://www.marcelgagne.com/node/529
Tomorrow GPLv3 is Released
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| Mr. Carmony asked a question, will Linux split in two factions? The answer
| is no. Some Linux distros will limp along a while and then die off,
| because they misunderstood what folks want when they choose GNU/Linux
| and FOSS. You can see that already. Red Hat, which refused to sign any
| such deal, is flourishing, for example. It's not about code that "just
| works". Apple offers that already. It's the freedom. And we've proven
| willing to put up with some temporary frustration in order to get it.
| In time, FOSS will win, and all those proprietary codecs and everything
| else will be made available on pleasanter terms, because market share
| does that.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070628105947503
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