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A collection of announcements
There's a whole set of relevant announcements which have come into the LWN
mailbox. Here's a collection of the most important:
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A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 15:59 UTC (Wed) by smadu2 (subscriber, #54943) [Link]
spoiler alert - collection of April fool announcements.
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 16:04 UTC (Wed) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link]
Note to the Trolls: Slashdot 2006 called, they want their April fools meme back...
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 16:20 UTC (Wed) by obi (subscriber, #5784) [Link]
It's more of a cuteoverload.com spoof. Go check it and compare ;-)
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 17:41 UTC (Wed) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
For April 1st, 2006, Slashdot re-skinned the site to mimic cuteoverload...
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 17:49 UTC (Wed) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
Here ya go: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakedahn/121099317/
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 16:34 UTC (Wed) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link]
Of particular note in the Netcraft study is the 1% usage of telnet. The surge in Lynx usage is what has been widely reported, but the surge in Telnet usage is way under-reported. Back to basics. We don't need no stinking UI :-)
I also liked GvR's new title of BDEVIL.
Thats. Just. Wrong. Posted Apr 1, 2009 17:09 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Mark Shuttleworth, the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, has announced his plans to rewrite all of Gnome, X11 and the Linux kernel using the Mono platform. EWWWWW, GROSS!!
Thats. Just. Wrong. Posted Apr 1, 2009 22:47 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Hey, it could have been worse. He could have said Java! ;-)
Thats. Just. Wrong. Posted Apr 2, 2009 3:18 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Or worse, INTERCAL.
Thats. Just. Wrong. Posted Apr 2, 2009 3:55 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Hey, it could have been worse. He could have said Java! ;-) Well, my respect for Java (as a language and a platform) is several notches higher than for Mono/.NET. Regardless, Mark has his work cut out for himself. :)
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 17:14 UTC (Wed) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link] Actually, I was rather hoping the Arch i686 announcement was true - I wonder if and when something like this might actually happen? It seems the great transition to AMD64 is taking a very, very long time, and surely we've got to make the switch eventually. Is there any advantage to *not* doing so?
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 18:19 UTC (Wed) by kjp (subscriber, #39639) [Link]
Yeah that announcement looked quite real to me. I re-read it twice.
The netcraft one was awesome.
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 19:27 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
> Is there any advantage to *not* doing so?
Yep. First, comfort using older 32-bit binaries without any compat chroots/libs, and also comfort producing 32-bit binaries for such systems. Second, pointers are smaller. Third, the transition doesn't really bring any visible benefit, but does bring those 32-bit binaries hassles. Fourth, no one really cares.
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 20:20 UTC (Wed) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]
eeepc. Is atom 64 bits?
Derek (who read it three times)
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 20:33 UTC (Wed) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link] Some Atom CPUs are 32-bit, some 64-bit. The current clue is in the model number - if it's Atom ddd, where d is a digit, it's 64-bit. If it's Atom Nddd, it's 32-bit. Thus, the Atom 230 is 64-bit. The Atom N280 is 32-bit. The Atom 330 is 64-bit, etc.
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 18:04 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
>Mark Shuttleworth has launched a new kernel project.
It won't happen anyway, by definition, in this universe. Posting is futile.
A collection of announcements Posted Apr 1, 2009 18:11 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
On a related note, the Netcraft link could have been interesting if it was not for lynx. AFDs are good when it sounds “serious enough” to be believed. But for something as featureless as lynx, sorry not gonna happen. Had you said w3m it might have worked. (Feature list: frames,tables,Unicode,images; and before I hear people say elinks, no, that one does not do at least the latter two.)
At least they listed telnet. Insecure? Beware no, have you never heard of port 992? See, the 1% is *justified*.
I better take a look what's up in RFC heavens for AFD. Maybe IP over Avian Carrier, oh wait, we do have wireless-based Internet on some airlines already. Hm. Tough day.
Go Mark ! Posted Apr 1, 2009 22:43 UTC (Wed) by tglx (subscriber, #31301) [Link]
I really welcome this development. Finally we can go on to the next step and unify all arch/* implementations into arch/generic-mono.
Unifying i386 and x84_64 was just a small footstep compared to this huge jump forward !
Can't wait until I can download the beta version 365 days from now.
tglx
FFII Posted Apr 1, 2009 23:17 UTC (Wed) by tan2 (subscriber, #42953) [Link]
I love the FFII one. Here are some quotes from the press release:
"we use a Just-In-Time Lisp expression parser that maps the binary object code into reverse polish notation. Using a Beowulf cluster of Babelfish we
"This puts the EPO [European Patent Office] way ahead of any technology the Americans can develop. They have Google, but we have Poland. Thank you, Poland!"
Also, don't miss the jewel in the link: [Binaries as Prior Art] http://binariesaspriorart.org
I applause to the great work of of this AFD joke. It is funny, thought provoking and educational at the same time.
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