A guide for developers on setting up a development environment and contributing patches to the Mercurial version control system.
Explores Google's potential expansion of Android beyond mobile phones to PCs and netbooks, and the implications for its marketplace.
A 2009 article questioning the activity and relevance of local Linux User Groups (LUGs) in the internet age, asking for reader experiences.
A developer explains the reasons for open-sourcing his personal website built with Django, including community contribution and potential benefits.
A request for open-source backup solutions that use a database for tracking incremental backups, avoiding inefficient hard-link directory trees.
A reflection on the philosophical conflict between idealism and pragmatism within the Debian project and the broader Free Software movement.
Analyzes Sun Microsystems' business struggles and potential acquisition, focusing on risks to its patent portfolio and the broader Linux/OSS community.
A programmer debates the ethics of downloading out-of-print, pirated ebooks when legal digital versions are unavailable, weighing copyright law against practical and environmental concerns.
Announcing a presentation on OpenXML document interoperability from an open-source perspective, featuring PHPExcel and OPENXML4J.
A developer reflects on 5 years at Hippo, detailing growth through open source work with Apache projects like Cocoon and contributing to Hippo CMS.
Discusses the widespread use of the buggy eggtrayicon implementation in GTK+ apps and urges developers to adopt native solutions.
An introduction to Graphviz, an open-source tool for generating graph diagrams from text descriptions, with examples of its dot and neato utilities.
Google's Protocol Buffers open-source release for cross-language object serialization, with a Java/Python test example.
An overview of Ohloh, an open-source community site that aggregates project data, tracks developer contributions, and analyzes licensing from source code.
A Nokia executive's controversial talk on DRM and open source highlights the need for better communication between corporations and the developer community.
An obituary for the XEmacs fork, reflecting on its history, technical contributions to the Emacs ecosystem, and its eventual decommissioning.
Analyzes the distinction between 'organic' and 'non-organic' open source development models, using examples like Apache and MySQL.
A 2008 link roundup discussing open source commandments, Linux desktop strategies, and industry moves from companies like rPath and Microsoft.
Analyzes the differences between 'organic' open-source projects with community contributions and 'non-organic' ones driven by a single company.
Analyzes Sun's strategic goals and community challenges with OpenSolaris, contrasting its open-source release with Linux's development model.
