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The Register: "Members of the Debian community are up in arms following a surprise announcement over the way project participants are vetted and organized."

Linuxworld: "ICANN is seeking comments on a proposal that would open up the market for generic top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet, basically allowing anyone with US$185,000 to buy a new TLD."

Apple has publicly posted in their HotNews feed that they are opposing a proposal (Proposition 8) that seeks to eliminate the right to same-sex marriage in the state of California.

Apple has also donated $100,000 to the "No to 8" campaign:

Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released in late 2003 and since then the developers have stuck with the 2.6.x.y version numbering.

It's been five years with the stable Linux 2.6 kernel, but a proposal has been made on the Linux kernel mailing list to change this scheme.

No, a Linux 2.8 kernel isn't secretly in the works, [...]

LKML.org: "How about this proposal instead? We number the kernel based on the year, and the numbers of releases we have done this year: YEAR.NUMBER.MINOR_RELEASE"

A proposal for a revised Fedora 10 schedule is under discussion.

If this schedule holds, the Fedora 10 beta release will be delayed two weeks (to September 23), and the final release would be on November 18, three weeks later than originally planned.

That night someone, nicknamed mapnjd, submitted the article to Slashdot with the above title (Dag Wieers intelligent swipe at Ubuntu) but I guess the Slashdot editors thought it would be a better headline if they phrased it Dag Wieers Scoffs at Coordinated Linux Release Proposal ... and overnight I became an Ubuntu-hater ...

This is a post on a proposal of how the new teen Linux communities should look after being merged.

FROM : ab_lists DATE : Tue Jul 08 09:52:48 2008 A lot of discussion on different application user forums seem to be going on regarding the exchange of metadata between different applications.

A proposal of volatile filesystem for computation caching