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Re: [svlug] news summery for today.




On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> ok, so, we have...
> 
> * Debian 2.0
> http://www.debian.org/
> http://slashdot.org/articles/980723/1945237.shtml
> to buy: http://www.netgod.net/
> (checkout the counter :-)
> and cheapbytes, lsl, etc...
> 
> * perl 5.005
> http://slashdot.org/articles/980723/1058259.shtml
> http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/901197139/
> 
> * new distribution from XiG
> http://slashdot.org/articles/980722/1423253.shtml
> 
> * Jikes, a Java VM and native compiler from IBM released, linux port too.
> http://slashdot.org/articles/980723/2211254.shtml

                              ^^^^^^^
A good (?) example of a Y2K problem.

date +%Y%m%d does a better job.

Big saving, 2 characters.

> 
> new bash, sed, and a buncha other things.
> 
> ach... where would we all be without /. and freshmeat? :-)


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