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Dec 24, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
9/11. The Tragedy.
“The September 11 attacks (called September 11, September 11th or 9/11), were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. When passengers attempted to take control of the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, preventing it from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.
Sep 11, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
LinuxCon, 20th Anniversary of Linux Celebration Kicks Off
Today is a big day for the Linux community. Users, SysAdmins, developers and business executives have gathered for the third annual LinuxCon and the official celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Linux.
This week is about celebrating as a community the accomplishments of the last 20 years and to collaborate on how we advance Linux for another 20 years. We’re lucky to have the foremost experts on these topics on hand at LinuxCon: Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, legal authority Eben Moglen, IBM Linux leader Dan Frye and others. Renowned Internet and society author Clay Shirky will share how Linux and collaborative development have spread into other areas of culture and what that means for the future of technology. These are just a few examples of the speakers and content we’re looking forward to today through Friday.
Aug 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday
The Debian Project is pleased to mark the 18th anniversary of Ian Murdoch’s founding announcement. Quoting from the official project history: “The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a ‘distribution’ of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.”
Aug 17, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Happy 20th Birthday, World-Wide-Web
The world wide web, the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee is 20 years old today. The worldwide web isn’t to be confused with the Internet, even though they’re commonly considered the same thing. The Internet, which is the physical infrastructure of servers and the protocols that enable them to interconnect has been around for much longer. The worldwide web (commonly known as WWW or W3) is a set of protocols for displaying and sharing documents across the Internet.
Aug 07, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
