Open source in Asia has a ways to go
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| Pillay explained in an interview that Linux's early developers contributed
| not for the money, and had been consumers of the Internet for many
| years. "The 'late comers'--the Asian nations--are at a stage of consuming it
| and trying to find their place under the open source sun.
|
| [...]
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| Alex Fletcher, entiva group principal analyst, said that the need for Asian
| channel partners to wean themselves off from U.S. companies is one of the
| drivers for an increased interest in open source in the region.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62037313,00.htm
Competition Among Open Source Compilers
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| Although the GNU Project has GCC, and most proprietary UNIX systems have
| their own compilers, the BSD projects typically have none. In the base system
| of any BSD system, GCC is the largest piece of GPL’d code. Over the years, it
| periodically looked as though TenDRA might replace it.
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1168313
Related:
Linux: Kernel Documentation and Translations
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| Following a recent patch that translated Documentation/HOWTO into
| Japanese [story], a new patch offered a translation of the same
| document into Chinese.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8432
[yellowdog-announce] Amulet launches Japanese Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for PS3
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| This latest release of Yellow Dog Linux v5.0J bring offers an open-source,
| creative breakthrough with support for the PLAYSTATION and Cell
| microprocessor and incorporation of the next-generation integrated desktop
| user interface "E17".
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http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-announce/2007-January/000138.html
CMMI is not a secret code
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| In the Linux world new users are often scared away by horror stories of
| having to compile their own programs. With todays distributions where there
| are, in the case of *buntu, over 20,000 pre-compiled programs to choose from
| and the need to compile your own programs is very rare. In fact about the
| only time you will compile your own programs is if you wish to use a
| different version than what the distributions repository supplies.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/cmmi-is-not-a-secret-code-21537
Linux: Supporting Older GCC Releases
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| When it was asked how many kernel developers use older version of GCC, Linus
| Torvalds explained that it really doesn't matter, "it's NOT about 'kernel
| developers'. It's about random people testing kernels. If we make it harder
| for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So no, I vote for *not*
| cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely fatal."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/14213
Well It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...
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| It was early June in 1987 when Richard Stallman announced the release
| of the GNU C compiler version 1.0. As I wrote in Open Sources, it was
| the most thrilling and most terrifying day of my life (up to that
| point).
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http://opensource.org/node/155
Tools: GCC 4.2.0 Released
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| Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2 saying, "GCC 4.2.0
| is a major release, containing new functionality not available in GCC
| 4.1.x or previous GCC releases." He then linked the GCC 4.2 Release
| Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes document for more details as
| to what is new in this release.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8214
Absoft Announces New Fortran Compiler Technology for AMD Multi-Core Processors
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| The first platform supported by Absoft's new suite will be Linux, with
| versions for Windows and MacOS to follow later this fall.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/primenewswire/127859.htm
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