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EricaJoy: A question that came up this weekend…

  • AG · 2 years ago
    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.