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Submission + - FreeBSD first to include Grand Central Dispatch (freebsd.org)

Submitted by chaim79 on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @02:12PM

chaim79 writes: FreeBSD 8.1 will be the first Open Source Linux/Unix distribution to include Grand Central Dispatch.

Apple Open-Sourced Grand Central Dispatch shortly after releasing OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Grand Central Dispatch (also known as libdispatch) is a threading library that gives the OS control over threading pools and gives programs access to those thread pools, instead of needing to create and manage per-application thread pools. Also involved in the port to FreeBSD is a blocks-aware clang compiler, Blocks are an extension to the C language spec essentially allowing anonymous inline functions to be created inline in C code and allowing those blocks to be assigned to queues for concurrent processing.

Submission + - Teacher and Bloger both shot before thinking (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

chaim79

on Friday December 12, 2008 @01:04PM

chaim79 writes: "Two days ago a blogger who works to provide and and encourage open source usage and awareness among high-school students received an e-mail from a teacher who jumped to conclusions and attacked him for doing and encouraging illegal activities, he fired back and posted it on his blog. The reaction he received (front page on SlashDot) was not what he was expecting, and the comments left on his blog shocked both him and the teacher.

The blogger has since followed up with apology and clarification, from himself and from the teacher in question, and several choice comments on the vehemence of the reaction (both his own and the communities).

The bottom line? Even as we in the linux community struggle to overcome ignorance and increase awareness in Open Source Software, we must take care that our reactions to such situations do not make the situation worse."

Submission + - Microsoft to pay Mac bloggers to out Apple?

Submitted by

chaim79

on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @01:48PM

chaim79 writes: "Apparently advertising companies working for Microsoft are approaching Mac Enterprise Bloggers and offering to pay for articles (Corporate Custom Content) to say that Vista is better for the enterprise then OS X. David Morgenstern at ZDNET was aparently offered $15,000 to write such an article.

Microsoft appears to be worried."

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