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UNIX and Linux distro timelines

October 29th, 2008

I knew of the GNU/Linux Distro Timeline (1992-), but there is also a UNIX timeline graph, starting from 1969. Both are pretty interesting graphs :-)

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ViewGit 0.0.2 released

October 19th, 2008

ViewGit 0.0.2 has just been released (download) with minor features and bugfixes. Most visible change is probably the addition of tag/head/remote labels, idea shamelessly ripped from GitWeb.

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Webcomic strips about the financial crisis

October 19th, 2008

In case anyone isn’t reading Sinfest yet, it has been having a very humorous look on the financial situation, starting somewhere around 2008-09-10. Some US presidential candidacy material is (naturally) mixed in, but that should only add to the flavor ;-)

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Distributed issue tracking – the next big thing

October 18th, 2008

For a few years distributed revision control systems have been picking up speed especially in free software projects, but increasingly so in companies and organisations as well. While the problem of “disconnected” working on code was solved by the distributed revision control model, what remained was the fact that issue tracking still couldn’t be done in a truly distributed manner.

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Jacobsen v. Katzer – over?

October 3rd, 2008

This case has mostly stayed under the media radar, but it seems to be finally finishing up.

There isn’t much more to say about the kind of person who attempts something like this.

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