Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Linus Torvalds, initiator of development of the Linux Kernel and who is often described as the open source champion, interested in licensing only insofar as it affects his ability to share code and improve software more quickly.
When asked, which is more important, sharing code or empowering users - he responded ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
The popular Google's Desktop search software is now available also for linux. This is released last month, approx. two months after Google released Google Desktop for Mac.
Google Desktop Blog says:
"For most Linux users, looking for files, documents, or emails usually involves some combination of 'find' and 'locate,' but sometimes ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
According to LinuxDevices.com, Linux was selected for a NASA experiment aimed at proving the feasibility of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and software for scientific space missions. A key requirement was for application development and runtime environments familiar to scientists, to facilitate porting applications from the lab to the spacecraft.
NASA's "Dependable ...
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