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LXer Linux News is a website, founded by webmaster Dave Whitinger, which publishes continuous up-to-the-minute news on the world of GNU/Linux, the various BSD's, & Open Source/Free Software. Dave Whitinger also co-founded one of the original Linux community news sites back in the 1990s. This explains, in part, why so many long-time Linux community members have found their way to the site. Editor-in-Chief Don Parris heads up an experienced crew of [http://lxer.com/team.php editors and writers]. Bob Whitinger, Dave Whitinger's father, has recently assumed the position of publisher, a position previously held by his son.
While anyone can submit news stories, LXer has many stories automatically placed in their queue through their immense aggregation of news sources. LXer is an excellent-quality, editorially independent news website without overwhelming ads and no pop-ups. They recently re-designed the look of the website and somehow made what was already good, a lot better.
LXer also keeps track of LUG meetings, corporations switching promises, hardware compatibility, pre-installation and much more. Like most sites they have a number of forums that provide a place for moderated discussion about news relating to LXer itself and Free and Open Source software issues. The quality of the discussions are second to none, with the threads from the articles being as informative is the articles themselves.
From the about page at LXer.com:
LXer.com is a fully independent news and opinion site, established in January 2004, by Linux veteran Dave Whitinger, a well-known personality in the free and open source software community.
LXer is one of the most widely read Linux community news and opinion sites. People turn to LXer for its frequently updated news feed and comments. Over 400,000 unique users from over 165 countries visit LXer each month, and LXer is syndicated by Google and dozens of other community sites. CIOs, CTOs, government officials, as well as programmers, system administrators and end users make up our very active community.
Our top quality editors create, edit, and present information about GNU/Linux and free/open source software via our frequently-updated newswire. You can visit our Staff page to learn more about us.
To contact us, please e-mail editors _at_ lxer.com
Related Links
* LWN.net
* OSNews
LXer links
* [http://lxer.com/ LXer website]
* [http://lxer.com/module/newswire/stories/add.php Submit a story to LXer]
* [http://lxer.com/module/newswire/lf/ LXer Features]
* [http://lxer.com/module/forums/ Forums]
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