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Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up

In like a lion, out like a Snow Leopard? Apple changed its spots on Sun's ZFS fairly quickly. This week the company shutterd the ZFS Project on Mac OS Forge, and there's no hide or hair of ZFS to be found in Snow Leopard. It's a pretty quick turnabout from a few years ago, when Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was touting Apple's inclusion of ZFS in Leopard.


Brian Proffitt Joins Linux Foundation as LDN Community Manager

After a long search, the Linux Foundation has found its community manager for its LSB Developer Network. The Linux Foundation has tapped Brian Proffitt, longtime managing editor of Linux Today, Enterprise Linux Today, AllLinuxDevices, LinuxPR, and JustLinux.

OStatic: For readers who aren't familiar with Linux Today, could you give a bit of background on the site and yourself?

Brian Proffitt: Wait, who's not familiar with Linux Today? Are you kidding me? Have you been talking to those people at SourceForge again? Boy, what characters...



Why Open Source is Growing at an Amazing Pace: Because it Can

Anyone observing the open source community will tell you that open source is growing at an amazing pace. Specifically, the number of applications and the maturity of those applications are growing at an amazing pace. I could have told you that last week, but using anecdotal examples and data I have on hand from the openSUSE project. Now I can tell you that based on a study of 5,122 active and popular open source projects.