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Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25

chris — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:15:02 +0000

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Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.

The reality is users want new features, but hate reduced functionality. And often free software developers want to build something new. But what is the cost of this constant form of “progress”?

How do we shift value from new and shiny, to tried and true to help enable wider free software adoption?

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The New and Shiney Culture

Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the culture of shiny, focusing on polish, and other topics that matter to him.

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Why is Linux on the desktop failing?

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Bankrupt Linux News | LINUX Unplugged 11

chris — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:00:20 +0000

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The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community.

We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

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Thanks to the Antergos devs for reaching out.
Big con of the Synology DiskStation DS412+ is the PSU.
\”If you don\’t like it, don\’t use it.\”
Why is nobody mentioning Debian and its rolling model?
Linux Unpluged Episode 10: Ubuntus Rolling issue
- Gary points out devs:

Prod machines should be locked down that are inside the firewall. A dev machine should be close to a prod environment and testing a staging machines should be identical to prod. When updates occur, libraries change (including the runtime) and when a library changes that your app uses, full regression testing should be done.

The Bankrupt Linux News

The free software media and cults of personality

I\’m talking about the cults of personality that often dominate the free software community
such cults are contrary to community values. Worse, they can do untold damage, imposing commercial values at the cost of community ones, or dividing the community as those at the center of such cults decide to air their personal grudges in public. They can cause people to discard their own judgment and choose software on the basis of who endorses what, and even to compromise themselves morally by choosing sides in a flame war when they should be condemning everyone involved.

The problem is that journalism as it is practiced today finds cults of personality convenient. Being able to mention celebrities in the headlines increases page views,
As for writers, mentioning someone famous is a quick way of validating a point. Even if the celebrity fails to make a logical argument or offer a scrap of insight, readers are more likely to be swayed to a viewpoint by learning that a celebrity supports it.

However, even when a writer is not stooping to such tactics, not feeding a cult of personality can be difficult. Readers want to hear about what the famous are doing or thinking. They are far less interested in ordinary people, which is why stories about people behind the scenes, while well-meaning, rarely keep people reading unless the writer can quickly establish an interesting angle.

In fact, just as a side-effect of free software has been to create de-centralized means of collaboration, those of us who are free software journalists can try to create our own standards for a story — one that doesn\’t depend on celebrities, but on skilled writing.

That\’s a lofty goal, but it\’s one at which I\’m determined to aim.

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Gandalf the Whiteboard | CR 37

chris — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:48:29 +0000

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From text editors and compilers to Project management tools Mike shares his toolchain for getting projects done.

But we start with fending off the trolls, trouncing Chris over the OYUA, and struggling with nuances of an open sources ASP.NET.

Plus defending a dev underfire for speaking his mind, and we answer a batch of your emails.

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Jeramy writes:

“Michael failed to mention that Microsoft released ASP.NET to the open source community and now ASP.NET can be run on any server with any database management system.”

John shares his sister’s web-based calendar: www.keilascode.com
Folks love the SNES generation

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