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A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane 238

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 07, 2009 @03:22PM from the early-nostalgia-is-the-best-kind dept.

M-Saunders writes "What did the Linux world look like back in 2000? TuxRadar has republished a distro roundup from Linux Format issue 1, May 2000. Many distros such as SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat are still around in various incarnations, but a few such as Corel and Definite have fallen by the wayside."

$6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants 280

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2009 @04:32PM from the gentlemen-gentlemen-there's-plenty-to-go-around dept.

witherstaff writes "House Democrats have proposed $6 billion in Internet investmentsas part of a sweeping economic stimulus bill that the full House is expected to vote on next week. The $6 billion is considered a down payment on efforts Obama will make in this area over the next several years. Of course let's not forget the $200 billion broadband scandal that the large telecommunication companies have been paid but never delivered on."

Comment Re:Allan Bromley (Score 1) 183

by Murf on Monday September 23, 2002 @02:37AM (#4309882) Attached to: Examining the Antikythera Mechanism

Allan taught me how to write my first assembly code (and to have an appreciation of how things work under the hood). He was an awesome teacher and a good guy.

He will be missed.

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