This October has been started with mournful news. The death of Steve Jobs was now joins the death-last-weekend of MacAlister Rithcie Dennis , co-creator of the Unix operating system and father of the C programming language
This engineer graduate in physics and mathematics at the University of Harvard helped design and development of this system with Brian Wilson Kernighan, and contribute to the creation of the programming language C.
As announced in Google + one of the team members of Computing Science Research Group at Bell Laboratories which developed the Unix operating system, Robert Pike, Dennis Ritchie died last weekend, victim of a long illness.
Rob Pike has said about Ritchie, through Google's social network, which "confident that there are people who appreciate the scope of their contributions and mourn his death properly." And is that "the world has lost a truly great mind," he concluded.
Turning Ritchie was awarded in 1983 by the generic operating systems theory and the National Medal of Technology in the U.S. in 1998. In 2007, when the computer was finally retired, after being head of systems software research at Alcatel-Lucent.
Big East programming, died as he lived, quiet, discreet, like most true geniuses.
I arrive a few days late to wish you bon voyage, Dennis, but here I am.
Thank you for your legacy.
Lisset Meizoso Vazquez.
Entrepreneur, idealist, tireless ... This man has been and will be an inspiration for many generations. Needless to say the least. His work and its innovations and have made him immortal. Now he touches is to follow his example.
Have a good trip, Steve.
Vazquez Lisset Meizoso
PS I leave his inspiring speech at Stanford (again ..)
Three new issues free office technology for all of CENATIC
Note David Sanchez
Director of Outreach and Communication
CENATIC Foundation
National Reference Centre for implementation of ICT based on open source
National Competency Centre for the Application of open source technologies
Just 5 months, during the International Conference on Free Software Caceres started a collection of booklets technology training about free tools that have already reached more than 75,000 people, delivered to the newspaper, events, and especially through downloads from our website http://www.cenatic.es/
"Passion, freedom, social conscience, truth, the fight against corruption and social equality are some of the values that I consider essential for us involved in politics," Ruth Ruiz Carrasco. And Deputy Chairperson of the Commission of Industry and Technological Development of the Government of Cantabria
A few weeks ago we discussed in the plenary of the Parliament of a motion pulse Cantabria Free Software and open standards in the administration of our region . It was the first time I was struggling around an issue like this in our Parliament.
The motion had several objectives: to obtain broad political support, encourage and support further impetus to the Government on this issue, view the Government of Cantabria is betting on this line of action and bring to light a debate that is occurring in society, albeit in very specialized fields.
Building eGovernment platform based on open platform developed by the Junta de Andalucía, W @ nd thanks to the collaboration agreement in place to ensure later, with the guarantee of their operation and contrasted. This platform is a reference to the number of applications processed, which amply proves its public interest.
I admit it. I loved this story. If the English Court has decided to sell computers with Ubuntu Linux is because there is demand and if there is at last free software is reaching the general public and that's always good news.
Computers in particular that are selling with Ubuntu are quite modest for the times, but of course, Ubuntu can afford. And the price: 229 €.
As has been announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 held in Barcelona, Intel and Nokia have teamed up to create a new open source project based on Linux, its name: MeeGo . This mobile operating system is a hybrid between systems Moblin (Intel) and Maemo (Nokia), both based on Linux for ARM processors and Atom, respectively. It is part of a joint project with the Linux Foundation : The consortium responsible for ensuring the proliferation of operating system created by Linus Torvalds.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Global leaders Intel Corporation and Nokia merge Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo *, a software platform based on Linux that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including mobile handheld computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and infotainment systems in vehicles.
- MeeGo offers application development environment Qt, and is based on the capabilities of the Moblin operating system kernel and user experience references. Using Qt, developers can write once to create applications for a variety of devices and platforms, and market them through the Nokia Ovi Store and Intel AppUpSM Center.
- MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and governed using the best practices model of open source development. The first version of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with the release of devices later this year.
- Nokia and Intel expect MeeGo widely adopted by global manufacturers of devices, network operators, semiconductor companies, software vendors and developers.
