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A question that came up this weekend…

Started by EricaJoy · 9 months ago

So I was chatting with an open source dev this weekend after squashing bugs and the following question came up: What Open Source project would you work on if you didn’t have a job and money wasn’t a factor (assume you’re rich with nothing to do)? Why that ... Continue reading »

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  • Well, you can _actually_ get paid to write FOSS applications. Not a violation of the GPL (but you already knew that) :)

    If I were a code slinger the following projects would be on my short list: amaroK, Slackware, Debian, CUPS

    amaroK is an excellent juke box and podcatcher, use it exclusively (better than iTunes, yeah I said it.)

    Slackware - My workstation distribution since day zero (well since 96')

    Slackbuilds - Great repository of slackware package install scripts that work very well.

    Debian - The distribution which spawned many other commercial Linux distros (specifically would work on package manager).

    CUPS - It still needs a great deal of work.. Since Apple acquired I dunno what the future holds..

    As an aside - contributing code is just one of the many ways to support a FOSS project. Documentation, monetary contributions, evangelising (read Netcasting, etc), submitting bugs.
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