It’s hip2b2

The project called Barry is pretty vital to me as a BB user. Unfortunately, it does not have Fedora 9 binaries yet and does not build nicely too. So, I took the liberty of building them.
Here they are for download:

http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-debuginfo-0.12-2.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-util-0.12-2.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-0.12-2.i386.rpm
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-devel-0.12-2.i386.rpm

And the source RPM can be found here:

http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/srpm/barry-0.12-2.src.rpm

And here is the patch that makes it […]

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Second Life runs on […]

I found this interesting piece from OSDir about “Why Microsoft should acquire Linux?”. Actually, to be clear, it is actually a piece about why Microsoft should buy a major Linux distribution such as RedHat or Novell.

Alright, I’m going to say this. I think Microsoft should acquire Linux. Now, I understand that Linux is not as […]

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Microsoft today released the final version […]

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