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OSnews: If you've used UNIX or any of its derivatives, you've probably wondered why there's /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin in the file system.

Nuxified: "As you may or may not know Haiku OS Alpha 1 was recently released. It is a full featured and improved clone of the old BeOS.

OSNews has a nice review starting with a bit of history."

OSNews: "SUSE Linux used to be a very KDE-centric distribution. Then Novell came around, bought SUSE and Ximian, and slowely but surely they turned the now-openSUSE distribution into effectively a GNOME-centric distribution with KDE as its sidekick.

The openSUSE community, however, doesn't appear to be particularly happy with KDE being a sidekick."

OSNews: "As some had already anticipated when Nokia acquired Trolltech, the next version of the Maemo platform will have its application framework based on Qt instead of Gtk+."

OSNews: "I recently started using Git for my local revision control. Since I spend about 90% of my coding time inside the Vim editor, I went looking for a plugin that would make Vim play nice with Git.

In this article I present two different vim plugins and explore their feature-set via screenshots."

OSNews: "OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who've never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages."