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The sun is out outside, readers. This is a lovely way to end the month of
January in the Pacific Northwest. (It's amusing that North Bay
California weather calls for showers.) Though it may be too cold (or wet or foggy) to
spend much time outside, there's news from the free and open source software
world to peruse instead of working on your tan. (Southern hemisphere
subscribers, you'll get yours in about six months.)

With the AT&T lawsuit in the early 90s, it looked like the long-lived BSD
strain might come to an end. Fortunately, it survived. Now it's moving
into yet another niche--the desktop. FreeBSD Basics columnist Dru Lavigne
has watched and reported on the development of PC-BSD, a desktop
distribution of FreeBSD suitable for end users, since its inception. Now
she's interviewed some of the people responsible for the recent 1.3
release. Keep an eye on this one:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/25/inside-pc-bsd-13.html

Ruby on Rails 1.2 came out recently. It's forgivable if the noise around
that caused you to miss the release of Prototype 1.5. Prototype, of
course, is a powerful and popular JavaScript library with top-notch
JavaScript support. Scott Raymond explores the new features (what should
have been in JavaScript from the start):

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/24/whats-new-in-prototype-15.html

What motivates someone to create free software? Often it's personal utility.
That's understandable. What motivates someone to create community
documentation, however? O'Reilly editor Andy Oram invites your comments:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/why_do_you_contribute_to_commu.html

In weblogs this week, Rick Jelliffe announced that Microsoft had
approached him to edit Wikipedia. People reacted:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/an_interesting_offer.html

Tim O'Reilly questioned Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/what_actually_i.html

Nitesh Dhanjani found an old prediction that Google's antiphishing Firefox
extension would be problematic:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/googles_antiphishing_extension.html

Todd Ogasawara found Vista's PowerShell nearly as capable as a Unix
command line:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/microsoft_powershell.html

Andy Oram reported on a patent reform project attempting to recruit a
Rails programmer:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/patent_reform_project_hiring_a.html

Your editor found an interesting tidbit on the top company contributions
to F/OSS:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/the_top_companies_contributing.html

Jeremy Jones asked if the concept of "interfaces" matched Python well:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/python_wellzope_interfaces.html

Juliet Kemp documented how to enable LDAP replication with Kerberos:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/ldap_replication_with_kerberos.html

Caitlyn Martin praised the release of Xfce 4.4.0:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/xfce_440_released.html

Gregory Brown introduced the RubyForge forum:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/the_rubyforge_forum.html

Rob Orsini was glad to see the release of his Rails Cookbook:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/rails_cookbook_released.html

Surj Patel argued that OpenMoko-based phones are now what the iPhone wants
to be:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/fancy_an_open_i_1.html

Tim O'Reilly pondered one-person businesses:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/post_4.html

Brady Forest covered the release of Amazon's Amapedia:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/amazon_plunges_further_into_wikis_with_amapedia.html

Dale Dougherty reported on a panel discussion about feeling bad about
doing good:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/good_grief_1.html

That wraps up another week. Tune in again for a serious look at
"intellectual property" concerns and open drivers.

Quotes intended,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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