roots

Good design, like any art or fashion, has roots. What's hot in web logos right now, and what's been done to death? Check out this detailed rundown of the biggest trends.

LinuxBSDos: "Momonga is a Linux distribution based on Fedora. It is a community-developed distribution with roots in Japan (the name is derived from a species of flying squirrel found in Europe and parts of Asia)."

DaniWeb: "From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution."

Softpedia: "Barry Kauler is back at the helm of the Puppy Linux project, and he just released version 4.3 of the popular lightweight Linux distribution.

Puppy Linux 4.3 is a massive upgrade from the 4.2 series, with almost all the components updated or replaced."

In a new post to his blog Samuel Folkes expresses some concerns with the PHP community - not in how strong it is but how it might be making things harder for those new to the language.

Netstat -vat: "Red Hat today officially launched a new open source messaging system called HornetQ. The new effort has its roots in the JBoss Messaging platform, that has been around since at least 2006."

ExtremeTech is launching a new section. It's not so much something new, as a return to roots.