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I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf. These are five things that I wish Linux had. Consider this as my wish list for …

I've had several people ask me what I think the best, top, most user friendly, ultimate, and so on distribution is--so now I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference. Ease of installation, commercial support, community support, updates, administrative tools, stability, performance, and to a lesser …

It was exactly one year ago today that I published my original "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219749.html"]The 10 Best Linux Distributions[/URL]" and it's time to put forth a new list for this year's best. Without looking at the old list, I've decided to compile this one from scratch. This 2009 list takes several factors …

DATELINE - July 30, 2009 An open letter was sent to Lance Davis, primary administrator, describing the problems experienced by the other major members and contributors to the [URL="http://www.centos.org"]CentOS[/URL] project. Here is that letter, in its entirety that's also posted on the front page at centos.org: [QUOTE]July 30, 2009 04:39 …

Ubuntu and CentOS are now in the [url=http://www.rpath.com/corp/]rPath[/url]. The company yesterday began shipping a version of its [url=http://www.rpath.com/corp/products/rbuilder]rBuilder[/url] build and release management system for Linux that adds those distros; the tool previously worked only with [url=http://www.novell.com/linux/]Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise[/url] and its own [url=http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/project/rpath/]rPath Linux[/url]. rBuilder packages a Linux application with …

A few days ago, Red Hat, Inc., [URL="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html"]announced[/URL] that an intruder had broken into some of their systems and possibly compromised some important software packages. The most significant among them is OpenSSH--a secure method of connecting to a remote Linux system. Red Hat quickly took the systems offline to investigate …