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Some eight hours ago, SourceForge sent out emails to many, if not all of its 1,545,000+ members canvassing their interests in new features to aid purchases and sales of FLO (Free/Libre/Opensource) services, primarily software, via SF.net. A bit more info at the URL above. SF.net members, check your inbox.

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Yesterday apparently marked “a defining moment in the Joomlasphere” with the launch of joomlacode.org, a “new ‘V8 hot rod’… the best development environment… primarily to future-proof and cope with huge load… the new and improved Joomla forge”. That was the essential info’ from a newly popular post on digg.com. All of it ripped directly from the hype posted at Joomla’s main site, joomla.org.

It’s amazing how i try so hard sometimes to find something new that will get dugg a lot on digg, all to no avail, then i’ll have given up on it completely, just be doing whatever i’m into at the time, run across something i find marginally interesting or annoying, continue with it or forget it, respectively, and then suddenly find it being dugg at digg.

Just two days ago, i was trying to download Joomla to check out how well it might compete now with Drupal and Wordpress. I went to joomla.org and noted the hype above that later got posted to digg. But i found it too cryptic to bother delving into it and i was in a rush, so i just clicked on the “download” link and ignored all the “Joomla forge” hype.

I then spent the next half hour wrestling with “developer.joomla.org” trying to get it to give me a tarball, which it never did cough up. And since i could conclusively determine whether the problem was with the “Joomla forge” or the download managers i’ve been trying in Firefox, i simply gave up and tentatively wrote off Joomla as a significant alternative.

Now, two days later, i reminded of my abortive attempt by a digg post and i just finished downloading Joomla_1.0.12-Stable-Full_Package.tar.bz2 via the most complex of Firefox’s download managers, Flashgot using BitComet.

Excess tech’ does truly suck at times.

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Caitlyn Martin follows up on her January review of Canadian Vector Linux 5.8 and concludes, “This, to me, is where FLOSS developers shine. The ability to respond to
changing technologies and the changing needs of the user community
amazingly quickly and the rapid pace of development simply has not and
probably cannot be matched by the huge organizations that dominate the
proprietary software world.”

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Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story has also served as a springboard to create more open source projects.

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