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[News] Update on GNU-Darwin and Other GNU News

  • Subject: [News] Update on GNU-Darwin and Other GNU News
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:01:34 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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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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