Remains of the Day: Linux Needs a Diet Plan Edition
September 28th, 2009 | 
Author: Remains of the Day: Linux Needs a Diet Plan Edition
The father of the open-source OS calls his baby “scary” and “bloated,” Sony gets down with the indie (distribution) kids, and we learn how the Netflix Prize was won in today’s odds-and-ends roundup.
- Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’
The Finnish Linux founder says modern-day Linux is “definitely not the streamlined, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned when I started writing (it).” As Matt Asay points out, it also now runs on just about every platform in the world, not just one dorm room computer. [CNET] - Sony joins indies at Amie Street-without dynamic pricing
A big firm takes a dip in the indie distribution waters, but declines to try the very thing that makes one particular model so appealing. [Ars Technica] - Digbsy pushes out a major update to Twitter client, for better or worse
It was pretty much the last major social network that Digsy didn’t support, so not exactly surprising, if probably welcome by casual Twitter users. [Download Squad] - Google SketchUp Release Enables Faster Modeling
If you’re using SketchUp for street-level models rather than home improvement projects, SketchUp makes it a lot easier with Street View imagery and easy uploads [ReadWriteWeb] - How the Netflix Prize Was Won
When different algorithms and approaches were combined and applied to solving Netflix’s $1M recommendation challenge, a seemingly unbeatable barrier was broken. Recommended reading if you’re dreading an upcoming team project. [Wired] - More Time Requested in Google Book Scanning Case
A judge’s ruling on the fairness of Google’s plan to scan millions of books will wait until Oct. 7, due to the “overwhelming number of objections and briefs filed” in the case. There’s a joke about content indexing somewhere in there … [NYTimes/Media Decoder]
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