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Submission + - Enlightenment returns to bring Ubuntu to ARM (enlightenment.org)

Submitted by mu22le on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @05:36AM

mu22le writes: Enlightenment, the daring window manager that disappeared from our collective radar years ago is back to bring Ubuntu to ARM. The bet that E developers made years ago to neglect 3d and compositing and realize a fast and versatile 2.5d engine may have finally payed off. The new market for ARM based devices everybody that is so hot right now could be a niche the Enlighentment Foundation Librarieas can fill comfortably.

Submission + - Debia get FreeBSD kernel support (debian.org)

Submitted by mu22le on Sunday April 05, 2009 @05:33PM

mu22le writes: Today Debian get one step closer to really became "the universal operating system" by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel, Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at least on on the i386 and amd64 architectures) and get more or less the same Debian operating system they are used to. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time.

Submission + - Amazonian tribe has no word to express numbers (mit.edu)

Submitted by

mu22le

on Monday July 14, 2008 @03:52AM

mu22le writes: "This MIT press release reports of an amazonian tribe whose language has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other precise number, but only relative quantities such as "some" or "more."
The study, [...] offers evidence that number words are a concept invented by human cultures as they are needed, and not an inherent part of language, Gibson said.

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Submission + - Sony Adds PS3 Support to Linux Kernel

Submitted by

mu22le

on Thursday December 07, 2006 @07:12AM

mu22le writes: "A few Sony patches to the Linux kernel have just been merged in the mainline tree, to be included in the 2.6.20 release. The patches add "core platform support for the PS3 game console and other devices using the PS3 hypervisor." How long till the major distributions start packaging a PS3 version?"

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