NewsForge: Playboy Spreads Open Source Software | Linux Today

NewsForge: Playboy Spreads Open Source Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 7, 2005

“Instead of visiting some dry, boring Web site to download your
favorite open source software, why not put some spice in your life
and get it from Playboy?

“That spice is in name only, because you won’t find any
interesting pictures or stories at mirrors.playboy.com–just a few
unadorned directories linking to mirrors of the Comprehensive Perl
Archive Network (CPAN) and the latest releases of FreeBSD, Apache,
Fedora, and mod_ssl…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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