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OSNews: "Anyway, sometimes, a new distribution is started that brings something new to the table. One such "distribution" is Glendix, which aims to combine the Linux kernel with the userpsace tools from Plan 9.

Distribution is probably not the right term for this project."

OSNews was the first news magazine to break the story on Gnome's Seth Nickell effort to replace the Init system.

I think that everyone reading OSNews will have heard at least something about QNX.

As you may have noticed by now, we've introduced a little something called 'page 2' . We added this feature because we felt we needed a way to 'tier' the news we publish on OSNews, because a regular complaint ...

OSNews: "While the Theora bitstream format was standardized in 2004 and our beta releases have been used by millions, this 1.0 release is an important milestone reflecting the maturity and stability of the Theora codebase."

OSNews was privileged to an early access to the final version of Mandrake Linux 9.1 Standard Edition and we were able to test it for almost a week now.

OSNews: "If you were to ask people of a technically inclined nature who 'invented' the window, or where it first appeared, I'm sure you would get a lot of answers along the lines of Xerox PARC or Apple, and some might even be educated enough to come up with Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, and one of the driving forces behind the Online System (NLS).

I will get to Englebart later, but I want to focus on someone else first."

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OS News: "OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who've never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages."

OSNews: "In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories.

A post in the GoboLinux forums suggested that it might be better to turn the concept around: retain the FHS, and then use symbolic links to map the GoboLinux tree on top of it."