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View ArticleMining DistroWatch.com Logs (Part 2)
This article pursues the analysis of DistroWatch.com's logs I started one week ago. Pre-processing the logs in a different manner allows to focus on other interesting questions. In this way, although...
View ArticleGuidelines for Free System Distributions
"The purpose of these guidelines is to help people determine whether or not all the information for practical use in a system distribution (such as a GNU/Linux distribution) is free, and to help people...
View ArticleDistroWatch Weekly, Issue 298, 13 April 2009
Recently the latest version of perhaps the world's most friendly BSD distribution was released. PC-BSD 7.1 is based off FreeBSD and we take a first look at this interesting operating system.read more
View ArticleSilly Linux Myths Exposed: Linux Has Great Hardware Support
Perhaps one of the most common myths surrounding desktop Linux is the belief that modern distributions do not provide decent hardware support. In this article, I'll not only provide what I deem to be...
View ArticleDistroWatch Weekly, Issue 299, 20 April 2009
Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! It's the Ubuntu release week (or Ubuntu "circus", as some prefer to call it), a major event in the calendar of many open source software...
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