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Developer Linux News for Feb 14, 2002
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LinuxJournal.com: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications (Feb 14, 2002, 23:21)
"A fully XML-ized world is a simpler one, in many ways. To
analyze the operation of an accounts payable department, for
example, you don't need to know who reports to whom, who is due for
a three-week vacation and all those other messy human details. If
you can draw a diagram that shows invoices coming in and payments
going out, perhaps with authorization records spawned along the
way, then you have abstracted what ought to be the essential
information."
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4 (Feb 14, 2002, 21:31)
Changelog, link within: "If you have SIS IDE hardware please
handle this kernel with care..."
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GNU-Friends.org: Interview with David MacKenzie (the future of autoconf) (Feb 14, 2002, 19:17)
"Nowadays, everyone's on the Internet and many have broadband,
everyone has Perl 5 and many have Python, there are automatic
dependency following update systems, and everyone has POSIX and
Standard C and C++. Recent Autoconf releases have stubbed out some
of the tests for old limitations that you might as well assume
don't apply anymore, to make it run faster."
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Salon: All hail .Net! (Feb 14, 2002, 18:01)
"The .Net framework provides a programming interface for the new
millennium that works the way programmers today want to work. The
open-source and free software movement itself is waking up to that
fact in spectacular fashion."
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IBM developerWorks: Managing processes and threads (Feb 14, 2002, 15:17)
"I have talked briefly about processes and threads, and
demonstrated the programming of both in a program I wrote. After
measuring the performance of process and thread creation, Linux
seems to be faster on both counts than either Windows 2000 or
Windows XP. You're welcome to download the test script,
create-pt2a-sh.sh, and the source code for create-pt2a.cpp and run
it yourself."
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The Register: Report favours open source, Windows mix for Bundestag (Feb 14, 2002, 11:58)
"The Bundestux campaign to get the German Bundestag to adopt
open source software has experienced a possible setback, in the
shape of a report that recommends open source for adoption in some
areas, but leaves Microsoft on the desktop."
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