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Harvard is a passionate and opinionated community, and not all our passions and opinions were unleashed on H.P. (I, for example, may be the only one thrilled that Ralph Nader's web site is run on Linux). But we're choosing a new president for our country and our university, and these issues seem less relevant to our own lives than Quidditch matches across the pond...
...open-source movement is based on programmers' writing software and then giving it away, with coding for all to see. Every programmer who uses it is free to improve on it, in the process creating constantly improving, free software. But while Linux, the open-source operating system, runs on about a quarter of servers, it is relatively rare on home computers because it has been just too hard for nonexperts...
Gnome's goal--and de Icaza's--is to make life easier on the open-source barricades. The Gnome computer desktop comes bundled with many versions of Linux and gives it an easy-to-use interface. And Gnome is promoting development of programs that will provide the same ease of use for open-source word processing, spreadsheets and other software tools...
...PENGUIN THAT ROARED Linux, the little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
...this House master's arsenal: an Olympus Camedia C-2020-Z digital camera, a Linux web server and a database of information about each of his Leverittes. Students who bump into Georgi at a monkey-bread open house or the '80s dance often end up in pictures--digital photos posted within 15 minutes after events on the House website, which averages about 250 visitors per day. The some 450 Leverittes also regularly find Georgi popping up in their inboxes. "I know I send too many e-mails," he grins...