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DukeOfUrl closes. The DukeOfUrl site, source of many Linux reviews, has shut down. After four years, the effort and economics of running the site caught up to its creator. Good luck, Patrick, on your next venture, and thanks.

Counting potatoes: The size of Debian 2.2. Here's a paper describing research into the code that makes up Debian 2.2. The authors turned up over 55 million lines in the 2.2 distribution; the estimated cost of developing all that code would be, they say, just under $2 billion. The paper also contains a number of comparisons between Debian and Red Hat Linux 7.1. (Thanks to David A. Wheeler).

Guardian Digital Launches Online Career Center. Guardian Digital has announced an online career center that focuses on jobs in the Linux, open source, and security fields.

Events

Interviews with FOSDEM speakers. The Free Software and Open Source Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) is running a series of interviews with speakers who will be at the event (Brussels, February 16 and 17). The first two are with David A. Wheeler and Miguel de Icaza.

O'Reilly Open Source Convention CFP. A Call for participation for the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention has gone out. The Convention will happen in San Diego, California, on July 22 to 26. The proposal deadline is March 1.

linux.conf.au update. "What could make a better Christmas present for your loved one than tickets to linux.conf.au in February?" asks this update from the folks at linux.conf.au. Indeed, Brisbane in February will look good to many of us northern hemisphere dwellers. The list of speakers now includes Andrew Tridgell, Rasmus Lerdorf, Rusty Russell, Alan Modra, and Rasterman, and the early bird discount runs out at the end of the month. Time to sign up if you're going to do it.

Events: January 3 - February 21, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
January 28 - 29, 2002	The Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST 2002)	Monterey, CA
January 29 - February 1, 2002	LinuxWorld	New York, NY
February 1 - 3, 2002	Linux Event 2002	Livorno, Italy
February 3 - 6, 2002	Embedded Executive Summit	(Ritz-Carlton)Half Moon Bay, California
February 4 - 7, 2002	10th International Python Conference	(Hilton Alexandria Mark Center)Alexandria, Virginia
February 5, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Amsterdam
February 6, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Brussels
February 6 - 9, 2002	linux.conf.au	Brisbane, Australia
February 7, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Paris
February 8, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Madrid
February 13 - 15, 2002	1st CfP German Perl Workshop	(Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin)Bonn, Germany
February 15 - 17, 2002	CODECON 2002	San Francisco, California, USA
February 16 - 17, 2002	Free Software and Open Source Developer's Meeting(FOSDEM 2002)	(Brussels, Belgium)Brussels, Belgium
February 18, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Milan
February 19, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Zurich
February 20, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Munich
February 21, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Vienna

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

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