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Happy Birthday, Turing's Universal Machine

It's just 71 years ago this month that a seminal paper from Alan Turing was published, which helped pave the way to today's multi-billion dollar IT industry and confer on Turing the title of father of modern computer science. As is often the case in ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  20 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Alan Turing

Debian discord over de-classified developer proposal

Members of the Debian community are up in arms following a surprise announcement over the way project participants are vetted and organized. The announcement, posted by Debian developer and administrator Joerg Jaspert, proposed - among other things - ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  4 Nov 2008

Lenny might be late

Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  11 Oct 2008

Debian components breach terms of GPLv2

A top Debian contributor has been left "pretty disappointed" by elements of the Debian community for failing to comply with the conditions of the GNU GPLv2 license. Daniel Baumann, who maintains the Debian Syslinux bootloader package, has said Debian ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  6 Sep 2008

Mozilla claims mass Ubiquity mobilisation

Firefox developer Mozilla has claimed its decision to reinvent the command line to make mashups easier has received an overwhelming response from developers. Mozilla Labs last week released an experimental plug-in called Ubiquity, which lets users call ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  3 Sep 2008

Debian delivers FreeRunner open-phone package

Olympics aside, summer 2008 will be remembered for at least two other reasons. It will be seen as a time when the noise over Linux as a platform for mobile devices reached a crescendo. Second: it marked Debian's fifteenth anniversary. Bringing both ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  20 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Intel

Drizzle plans to wash away DBMS past

A new database management system (DBMS) designed for web applications and cloud computing could be the start of a new direction in DBMS development and, indeed, in software as a whole. Drizzle - unveiled recently at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  5 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Sony,  Google Inc.

Next Debian's 'Lenny' frozen

The next version Debian has come a step closer to completion with the freezing of the current testing distribution version codename Lenny. This will form the basis of Debian 5.0, expected in September. The freeze means that package developers who have ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  30 Jul 2008

Nut launches death threats at Debian women

Exclusive Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software. A poll by new project leader Steve McIntyre into whether people are happy on Debian revealed one female coder had been getting ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  4 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Tim O'Reilly

Eclipse will be watching you very closely

The Eclipse Foundation wants to know who is using Eclipse and how they are using it ahead of next year's planned mega release. One of the main innovations in the Eclipse Foundation's Ganymede synchronized release of 24 projects this year, out today, is ...

From PHIL MANCHESTER, LXer,  26 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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