Submission + - Paul Cohen Has Died
Mikkeles writes: "Paul Cohen passed away on March 23. He was known for proving the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis and the Axiom of Choice from the Zermelo Fraenkel axioms for set theory."
Submission + - Xbox 360 boots Ubuntu Linux
curry684 writes: After a security hole was uncovered last month, it was only a matter of time before someone would succeed in booting a Linux distro on the system:
Video and screenshots are supplied for your leisure.That's Ubuntu, running our favorite Mozilla Firefox web browser in the Gnome desktop environment, and a console window dumping the system's processor info, showing a sweet total of 3 Xenon CPUs running at an approximated 3192Mhz.
