Since they print my picture with this column, I have little hope of concealing my age, so I’ll just come out and say that I remember Ronald Reagan’s first year in office in 1981 – in fact, I was already a young adult at that time and was living in Reagan’s home state of California, working my first professional job after college. Reagan became known as “the great communicator” for the hypnotic optimism with which he could render his own point of view. In a speech somewhere around that time, the new president made a comment that was something like “We have come a long way since before we knew we had a problem with racism.”

Open Source Initiative seeks to broaden its base.

The Kernel Development Process

Linux 2.4 Status

Kernel Insanity at the Highest Levels

Linux Licensing Constraints

Kernel Disassembler

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Humans are storytellers. One could argue that journalists are even more like storytellers than other forms of humans, but then, you could also make the case that we just echo what is out there in the world.

maddog considers the benefits of building your own spin distro.

Mention NoOps and you’re sure to start an argument. But terminology aside, this is a coming trend to which ITs should pay attention.