LXer
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| Type | Not-for-profit cooperative |
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| Founded | 2004 in Dallas[1] |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Dave Whitinger and Bob Whitinger, Founder and Publisher |
| Industry | News media |
| Products | News service |
| Employees | 9 |
| Parent | Linux News |
| Website | lxer.com |
LXer Linux News is an international independent news and opinion source serving the free and open source software community.
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[edit] Origin
Founded in 2004 by Dave Whitinger, who also founded Linux Today, LXer is currently run by his father Bob Whitinger [2].
[edit] FOSS Sponsorship
LXer is an active sponsor for FOSS conventions, including LISA 08 [3] and SCaLE 08 [4].
LXer also provided coverage for T-DOSE 2007 [5] and again in 2008 [6].
LXer provided coverage of 25 different sessions [7] for FOSDEM 2009 [8].
[edit] Readership
LXer is a Linux news and opinion site accepting moderated comments, and contributing weekly editorials. Current monthly access includes 450,000 unique hits from over 165 countries. LXer content is syndicated by Google[9] and picked up as single source RSS feed from community news websites[10].
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