Comments on: A question that came up this weekend… http://www.ericabaker.com/2007/12/10/a-question-that-came-up-this-weekend/ Lack of planning on your part doesn't consitute an emergency on my part. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:48:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: AG http://www.ericabaker.com/2007/12/10/a-question-that-came-up-this-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-352 AG Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:24:24 +0000 http://blog.ericabaker.com/2007/12/10/a-question-that-came-up-this-weekend/#comment-352 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. 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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