The Linux.com Article Database
Once upon a time, there was a great Linux community site called Linux.com. Every day on Linux.com, dozens of volunteers from the Linux community would spend many hours of their time writing new articles, moderating comments and generally keeping the site looking like a professional resource, attracting several hundred thousand page views each day.
Unfortunately, for various reasons, Linux.com no longer exists in that format, replaced instead with a mostly automated system that pulls content from elsewhere on the web.
One of the key things that made Linux.com great, however, was that the vast majority of content on the site was published under the Open Content License. This allows for anyone to reproduce the content for free, providing the terms of the license are met.
On that basis, I've decided to re-publish (almost) all of the items that were in the main Linux.com database at the point at which it ceased to publish new content (October 2001). This includes news items and internal Linux.com announcements as well as full length articles; basically anything that was in the news/article system.
This gives the volunteers a chance to find a copy of their work, and also keeps the content available for the rest of the Linux community to benefit from and away from the bit-bucket.
Thank you to all those who contributed to the site!
If you find an item that shouldn't be here, then please let me know
If you'd like to see how Linux.com used to look, Garrett LeSage (ex linux.com art director) has some Screenshots Online as part of his portfolio
At this point you can do one of three things to find
old articles:
a) Search by Author(s)
b) Use the Category Browser
or c) use the Full Text Search below.
Full Text Search
Article-o-matic
| 1999: The Year of the Penguin? |
| Linux has been the buzzword throughout the computer industry for well over a year now. This past year has seen incredible growth for Linux in virtually every aspect. What started out as a college project by one lonely Scandinavian has become the fastest growing operating system in the IT world today. The success of Linux is well deserved, as it has enjoyed a worldwide development effort the likes of which has never been seen before. Linux is a relative teenager when compared to the venerable UNIX, developed in the late 60s, and even the various Microsoft operating systems that have been around in one form or another since the early 80s. Let's take a look at what this year has meant to Linux as an operating system, and the greater Linux community.... (10/Dec/1999 - 6185 bytes) |
