Open Source Software Image Map [LWN.net]

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency's National Technical Alliance has produced some reports on the benefits of open-source software development.

...a survey of relevant open source software packages was performed. Demonstrations were provided on an acquired workstation. The objective was to determine how Open Source Software technology and methodology could be applied to meet government requirements. The effort demonstrated the technological advantages of Open Source Software while highlighting several organizational challenges.

Thanks to David Wheeler.

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sad day..

Posted Jun 3, 2002 23:23 UTC (Mon) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link] (2 responses)

I have been reading LWN.net for over two years. I would even pay $1 per week to subscribe to it. That said, I hate the new LWN. If I want to read junky comments, I would go to Slashdot. I liked LWN because it had lucid, concise commentary. I especially loved the weekly kernel dev summaries.

Now LWN has boring Slashdot-like stories. The look went from light graphics to UNREADABLE IN-YOUR-FACE BOLD TEXT AND COLORS. The comment navigation is annoying because you cannot read more than one comment at a time (like Slashdot). You have to click on each and every comment to read one thread. Instead of showing up one or twice a day, I find myself checking LWN about only twice a week now.. adios?

<:~-(

$1 per week * 52 weeks * 1,000 readers = $52,000 per year (not too shabby!)

sad day..

Posted Jun 4, 2002 0:38 UTC (Tue) by PME (guest, #1045) [Link] (1 responses)

If you don't want comments, why are you clicking on them, and then complaining about their behavior? If you open an LWN account, you can select "flat mode", and you will be spared your mouse clicks (first change I made, BTW). While there, you can turn off comments completely, and LWN will look just like it did before!

Secondly, I do not see any change in LWN content. Could you please cite some examples of how it has changed?

Thirdly, bold and colored text is unreadable to you?! You are the only person I know that suffers from that disability. I would be interested to know how you manage it!

Fourthly, if LWN charged $1 per week, they would probably lose money in processing a payment that small. If you are implying that you would pay $50+/year, I think you might have something.

Don't you feel it ironical that you are contributing to the "junky comments" that you complain about?

To LWN: GREAT JOB !!! Keep up the good work, I love it!

sad day..

Posted Jun 4, 2002 9:10 UTC (Tue) by mem (guest, #517) [Link]

Thirdly, bold and colored text is unreadable to you?! You are the only person I know that suffers from that disability. I would be interested to know how you manage it!

This is off-topic, but since most of the comments lately have been bitching about the new look, I thought I'd share a tip: CSS.

For example, I don't like the front-page's huge bold headlines. Simple to fix, without bitching:

div.Headline {
    font-size: 115% !important
}

And I include that in my own stylesheet. Beautiful! Just play arround with the options in your account and CSS those things you can't directly customize.