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proclus/GNU-Darwin Lives!
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| I've been keeping this journal the way it
| was in 2000 for historical archival
| reasons. If you are interested in current
| information, here are some up to date
| links.
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http://www.advogato.org/article/1037.html
EnSilica updates eSi-RISC development suite
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| Version 2.1 includes a new hardware
| evaluation platform based on Altera's
| Cyclone III FPGA with rapid software
| development and debugging facilitated
| through the Eclipse integrated development
| environment and GNU GCC 4.4.0 toolchain,
| which now features native support for the
| eSi-RISC architectural features.
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http://www.embedded.com/products/softwaretools/224200745
Mano a Mano With the Cult of SEO
http://www.penguinpetes.com/Doomed_to_Obscurity/index.php?strip=0000234.jpg
An App, By Any Other Name
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| The developers of Ubuntu, the popular
| flavor of Linux that is installed on the
| computers in the Science Center, showed
| questionable judgment by picking a name
| that is a pretentious reference to an
| African philosophy. But to make matters
| worse, Ubuntu developers mucked up their
| clever release dating system with a
| completely ludicrous set of nicknames.
| Each release of Ubuntu is dated by the
| year and the monthâ9.10, for instance,
| came out last Octoberâbut the numbers are
| also paired with an alliterative
| combination of an obscure adjective and a
| rare animal, yielding such gems as Edgy
| Eft, Intrepid Ibex, and Jaunty Jackalope.
| It makes pompous names like Mac OS X Snow
| Leopard seem almost reasonable by
| comparison.
|
| In the pantheon of bad programmer names,
| recursive acronyms must sit near the top.
| Itâs a perverse concept popular with MIT
| alums in which one of the letters in the
| acronym stands for the acronym itself. A
| relatively benign example is the web
| scripting language PHP, which stands for
| PHP: Hyptertext Preprocessor. Older,
| stranger examples are the free operating
| system GNU (GNUâs not Unix) and related
| spinoffs: Cygnus (CygnusâYour GNU
| Support), a now-defunct company which
| provided support for free software, and
| Wine (Wine is Not an Emulator), software
| which helps run windows applications on
| Unix.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/column/fully-charged/article/2010/3/29/names-name-company-one/
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