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Open Source Awards 2004

Posted by michael on from the applause dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first Open Source Awards 2004 have been announced. These newly created awards aspire to be the Nobel Prizes of the open source world. Congratulations to the developers of Valgrind, VideoLAN, JACK, and Pango."

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  1. Re:What a boring lineup... by Espectr0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you watch DVD's with any program in linux?
    Then you use videolan technology, as they are the ones who developed libdvdcss.

    Do you use any gnome program that can work in any language? Probable you use pango too.

    Do you use mozilla or similar? Then you should now it is debugged with Valgrind

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  2. Re:Valgrind: an amazing tool by Jorrit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the links on this article explain what it does (i.e. the interview with the author of valgrind). I can explain it quickly though. Basically it emulates the x86 cpu and runs your program under very close inspection. By doing that it can discover various bugs or suspicious things while your program is running. It can find out that your program is reading or writing to memory where it shouldn't read or write. It can find out when your program is trying to use variables that haven't been initialized yet (haven't got a value yet). It can find out about memory that isn't released properly. And a lot more. It also has a cpu cache analyzer tool.

    In short, valgrind manages to find many bugs in programs and gives you the information so you can actually solve those bugs.

    Greetings,

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