After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his careerContinue reading “Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70”
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 3
The last day started at 9:30 AM too. Attendees proposed their sessions/presentations in barcamp-style again. After going around to share and learn a lot of interesting topics, I attended the most interesting one of the day, where Pierros Papadias, the chair of Fedora Ambassadors Steering Commitee moderated a talk about Fedora Ambbassadors’ work and howContinue reading “Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 3”
Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 2
The day started at 9:30 AM with the open ceremony speech from Jared Smith, our Fedora Project Leader. Then everyone proposed their sessions/presentations in barcamp-style. All proposed sessions/presentations were voted and then arranged to five rooms, two big ones and three smaller ones. The most impressive session in the day is the presentation “You couldContinue reading “Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 2”
Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 1
It’s really nice to be here for my first FUDCon. After a long flight and huge wait, Milan is here. Checking in the UNA hotel, someone called me. Who? Then, Christoph Wickert, the man from Germany, who helps me a lot to make the first Fedora package. Robyn Bergeron checked in after me; then aContinue reading “Three days in FUDCon Milan 2011 – Day 1”