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Submission + - SvarDOS - an open-source DOS distribution (svardos.osdn.io)

Submitted by sproketboy on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:36PM

sproketboy writes: SvarDOS is an open-source project that is meant to integrate the best out of the currently available DOS tools, drivers and games. DOS development has been abandoned by commercial players a very long time ago, mostly during early nineties. Nowadays, it survives solely through the efforts of hobbyists and retro-enthusiasts, but this is a highly sparse and unorganized ecosystem. SvarDOS aims to collect available DOS software, package it and make it easy to find and install applications using a network-enabled package manager (like apt-get, but for DOS and able to run even on a 8086 PC).

http://svardos.osdn.io/

Submission + - Mechanical 'Pong' Takes the 'Video' Out of the Classic Video Game (vice.com)

Submitted by sproketboy on Sunday May 29, 2016 @08:38PM

sproketboy writes: Pong is a videogame pioneer. Released in 1972, Pong was the first sports video games, the first to be played by a computer, and now among the first to be brought into the physical world.

Submission + - Happy Public Domain Day: Works that copyright extension stole from us in 2015 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by sproketboy on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:02PM

Submission + - WikiLeaks releases the secret negotiated draft text for the TPP for IP rights (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by sproketboy on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @10:38AM

sproketboy writes: WikiLeaks releases the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.

Submission + - Nasa launches open source portal (nasa.gov)

Submitted by sproketboy on Friday January 06, 2012 @10:17AM

sproketboy writes: NASA has launched code.nasa.gov which will become a portal for NASA's open source software development activities. In its current form, it hosts a directory of the organization's open source software projects and provides documentation about NASA's open source software processes.

Submission + - Oracle killing Java Webstart (java.net)

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sproketboy

on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @07:27PM

sproketboy writes: "It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well.

Oh Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?"

Submission + - Intel to Universities: No Patents, Please, Just Op (innovationexcellence.com)

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sproketboy

on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @10:09AM

sproketboy writes: "Since January, four U.S. universities have agreed to host Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTCs) that will be funded at the rate of $2.5 million a year for five years. But wait, there’s A Catch: the company has made it a condition that in order to receive the millions, your university must open source any resulting software and inventions that come out of this research funding."

Submission + - AppleCrate II: An Apple II-Based Parallel Compu (comcast.net)

Submitted by

sproketboy

on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @11:06AM

sproketboy writes: "Michael J. Mahon provides a hands on approach to parallel computing. Geek awesomeness ensues."

Submission + - Project Darkstar no more (projectdarkstar.com)

Submitted by sproketboy on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @06:27AM

sproketboy writes: Project Darkstar, an open source software platform that simplifies the development of horizontally scalable servers for online games from Sun labs is being discontinued as of the Oracle acquisition. This project, mentioned a couple of years back on slashdot was a unique concept for building a application server specific to on-line gaming. Sadly they were so close at version 0.9.11 (which is still very stable).
Hopefully the open source community can get involved and help continue work on this project.

Submission + - The 25 Year Old BSD Bug

Submitted by sproketboy on Sunday May 11, 2008 @07:19AM

sproketboy writes: 1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.

So much for the many-eyes theory?

Submission + - Sun releases new OSS Language to replace Fortran

Submitted by sproketboy on Monday January 15, 2007 @02:18PM

sproketboy writes: Sun Microsystems has released an alpha version of a new programming language called Fortress to eventually replace Fortran for high performace scientific computing tasks. Designed specifically for multi-core processors. BSD licensed. News.com has the details.

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