Re: [Forward: Some Debian Project machines have been compromised]
Ciao Vetril,
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:37:51PM +0100, vetril wrote:
> Il ven, 2003-11-21 alle 13:51, Mauro ha scritto:
> > Ma non era tra le piu' sicure la debian?
> no.
> il commodore 64 e' piu' sicuro.
Invece di sparare cazzate, informati un po' di piu' .... :-)
Leggiti questo, se vuoi imparare qualcosa sulla Debian .... :-)
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Debian Rides Space Shuttle!!! and other Debian news
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* To: debian-announce@lists.debian.org
* Subject: Debian Rides Space Shuttle!!! and other Debian news
* From: bruce@master.debian.org
* Date: 20 Feb 1997 01:25:33 -0000
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In this bulletin:
Debian Rides Space Shuttle: Press Release
Debian Officer Election Results
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Here is a press release on Debian's flying on the space shuttle. If you
are friends with a member of the press, please pass this on to them with
a request for them to write about it. We'll be promoting this to the major
computer magazines, etc.
Thanks
Bruce Perens
<bruce@debian.org>
NEW COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM RIDES SPACE SHUTTLE
Contact: Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> 510-215-3502
A radically different new computer operating system is controlling an
experiment on a Space Shuttle mission in late March. The experiment
tests "hydroponics", a way of growing plants without soil that could
eventually provide oxygen and food to astronauts. The computer
controlling the experiment runs "Debian GNU/Linux", an operating system
built by a group of 200 volunteer computer programmers who
tele-collaborated over the Internet and never met each other. The system
has many earthly uses - it can replace conventional operating systems
such as Microsoft's "Windows 95" on personal computers. In a departure
from conventional operating system practice, the volunteer group is
giving the system and all of its source code away for free. Details are
available on the group's web site: http:/www.debian.org/ .
"Linux is the modern successor to the Unix operating system developed by
Bell Labs during the 1970's", said Bruce Perens, leader of the Debian
project. "A Finnish college student started Linux in the early 1990's,
and was joined by others on the Internet who helped develop the system.
We united Linux with free software contributed by other volunteers to
make a complete system of 800 software packages. The result communicates
on the Internet and includes, for free, many normally-expensive programs
such as web servers, computer languages like Java, C, and C++, and many
other programs".
The space shuttle experiment will fly on mission STS-83 in late March
and early April. Sebastian Kuzminsky is an engineer working on the
computer that controls the experiment, which is operated by Biosciences
Corporation. Kuzminsky said "The experiment studies the growth of plants
in microgravity. It uses a miniature '486 PC-compatible computer, the
Ampro CoreModule 4DXi. Debian GNU/Linux is loaded on this system in
place of DOS or Windows. The fragility and power drain of disk drives
ruled them out for this experiment, and a solid-state disk replacement
from the SanDisk company is used in their place. The entire system uses
only 10 watts", said Kuzminsky, as much electricity as a night-light.
"The computer controls an experiment in hydroponics, or the growth of
plants without soil", said Kuzminsky. "It controls water and light for
the growing plants, and sends telemetry and video of the plants to the
ground".
Educators have also gravitated to the "Debian GNU/Linux" system. David
Teague, a computer prof at Western Carolina University, says "most of
the laboratories in our CS department run Debian. We use it to teach
programming, operating systems, system administration, and web page
design". Schools from the primary grades to college use the system to
provide inexpensive Internet access to their students.
"Most of us are computer professionals, but we produced Debian GNU/Linux
as a hobby project", said Perens, who works as a graphics programmer for
the company that made "Toy Story". "It started out three years ago as a
loose collaboration of 60 people who had communicated on the Internet
but had never met each other. We were dissatisfied with the operating
systems available to us, which had not kept pace with the development of
our computer hardware. We felt that the 'net had become so big that we
could bring a group of volunteer programmers together on it to produce
things that had only been made by huge companies up to now. We hoped
that lots of people would put the system we created to serious use, but
we couldn't advertise it except by making a web page and talking about
it on the Internet. It didn't take long for us to pick up thousands of
users, and for the volunteer staff to swell to 200 programmers from all
over the world. People were taking Microsoft off of their systems to
install Debian". Today the system has spawned its own non-profit
organization, "Software in the Public Interest", to support further
development. The members come from every continent in the world.
"We're still interested in picking up more volunteers", said Perens,
"and we always welcome new users". People interested in the system can
learn about "Debian GNU/Linux" on the group's web site "www.debian.org".
The web site provides free downloads of the entire system, and
instructions on installing it.
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Eventualmente se questo non bastasse sono pronto a spedirne altri ....
prima di affermare qualcosa e' necessario informarsi .... :-)
Au Revoire
Hugh Hartmann
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