User: MrClean

Mining Software Repositories

On: Searchable C/C++ DB surpasses 275 million lines

Great Work!!!

FYI - there is a whole community of researchers that are interested in studying such large software repositories

http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/

(International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories)

May be you can write something and submit it over there or at least advertise your data set to that community.

Funny

On: MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing

The jacket may be using Linux but the PDF paper is written using Word. You would think they could let the jacket write the paper at least then it would use latex :-p

Another study:

On: Kernel Benchmarks

Annother more extensive linux evolution study is at:
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/icsm00.pdf

Re:Konq

On: Mozilla 0.9 Out

Interesting the main reason you prefer kong is the main reasons Microsoft integerated IE into windows. Same look and feel; and better performance. May be they were right after all.

I am not saying they are but it is an interesting observation.

Re:This will probably work

On: Jedi == Religion In NZ

Direct Link to the specific show
http://22minutes.com/realwrapper.php?target=dori s_ day.rm

Re:Forgot One Thing

On: Giant Linux Boost From Washington Post

So true ;->

What happens to Microsoft Research?!!!

On: Justice Department Decides To Break Up Microsoft

will MSR be part of MS1 or MS2? Or will it be a seperate company......

Re:breaking passwords ?

On: Surreptitious Communication via Page Faults

Actually it is explained really well in Tanenbaum Operaton System book on page 437 in the second edition.

Don't forget the Putnam

On: ACM World Final Standings Posted

Waterloo won the Putnam too.

http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2000/mar/20mo.h tml

Notice Donny Cheung in 1998,on the UW ACM team this year and another UW student won the special award for the highest-scoring female student in the contest.

http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/~cgsmall/uwput.htm l

Go waterloo go.

A new section for GPL-ing, Linux-ing?

On: Aureal to release Linux drivers/source code

These days, it seems that there are lots of companies that are releasing their drivers/software on linux.

Some are releasing the source code, others are releasing binaries. What ever their motives are? Anyways, this is probably just the start.

May I suggest that /. have a new section for this stuff instead of just having it part of the news.

It is nice to know that more and more companies are releasing their products for linux. But the novelty wears out really fast.

Also it would be nice if the section had a counter of the number of companies that released software and also a ranking by /. readers about how committed these companies are to Linux. ( Are they doing it only to help their stock or are they big time penguin fans? The Penguin Meter )