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Monday, 07 May 2012 03:20

Slackware is alive and kicking: Volkerding

An uninformed comment on a Linux community blog has led to questions over the stability and finances of the Slackware GNU/Linux project, but its founder assures iTWire that the project is alive and kicking.

Published in Open Source

Monday, 24 October 2011 09:57

FOSS luminaries ignore Ritchie's passing

Twelve days ago, the computing pioneer Dennis Ritchie was found dead at the age of 70. News of his demise was broken to the world by a former colleague, Rob Pike, who worked alongside him at Bell Labs.

Published in Open Sauce

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Re: iTWire - Vale Graeme Philipson, a great Australian IT journalist and analyst

I had met Graeme many times over the years. Always impressed by his ability to stay current in such an[…]
Re: iTWire - Vale Graeme Philipson, a great Australian IT journalist and analyst

A great loss to us indeed. I met Graeme a couple of times during the 1980s when he came to[…]
Re: iTWire - NBN retailer questions need for Enterprise Ethernet in fibre areas

NBN enterprise ethernet is an answer to the question "how can we make nbn profitable?"A business would be crazy to[…]
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Yep. Both can go.
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