Today President of GPUL Emilio J. (see the photo) and me went to the post office to send the first Hermes Project packet. Content: Debian Etch in 21 CD’s. Destination: Camagüey, Cuba

“What every programmer should know about memory” is a 114 pages document by the glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat). It’s focused on memory and cache management in traditional and new computer architectures.

Via LWN.

Multics Operating System released. Never too late

Via OSNews.

Last Tuesday Sonia and me attended to the concert that played a living legend: one of the free jazz movement rebels, Ornette Coleman. I always compare free jazz with high purity chocolate: it’s bitter at first taste, but you end up appreciating it.

We heard a great concert. The group covered some standards, and themes from Sound Grammar (2006) album. Chaos and melody swapped and merged. Intense performances, and the fastest bassist I ever saw.

I only missed just bit more nearness to the audience. No introducings, only one encore. Just 1:30, and goodbye. But, I repeat, a great, fuzzy concert.

Today I lived one of the best days since two years ago at Portiño. The school was in calm. We have a lot of children to work, but we were enough volunteers to dedicate much time to everybody. We learned, we played. Without shouts and runs. Without stress

Via Emanuele Rocca, a nice backup: Project GNU’s web page until 1997. Ten years, you know, it’s too much time

(You can also visit GPUL’s first web page at 1998 )

This week I read about three OS’s releasing. The first one, is not a surprise. OpenBSD jumps to the 4.2 version. OpenBSD releases one stable release every six months. We have new install method (there is a ISO image with everything to do a default install), and, of course, new ports and improvement of hardware supporting.

The great new of the week comes from OpenSolaris. The Project Indiana has released the OpenSolaris Developer Preview. The announcement comes with controversy because the name. The name related to OpenSolaris came from the Sun’s marketing staff and not from the OpenSolaris community. But even with some grey clouds over and a GPL v3 licensing that it’s taking too much time, to tasting the OS is worth it because ZFS and DTrace. Get it!

Via OS News I read about OpenVMS 8.3 and VMS 30th anniversary. Despite its name, OpenVMS is not a free OS. But it is a very interesting OS that lost importance in the market because bad enterprise policy by DEC and Compaq first, and HP now. Sometimes HP tried to kill the Alpha platform, in another times they seemed to relaunch it. I think the best way for OpenVMS is the same way of Solaris: making it free (as in freedom). Meanwhile, we have FreeVMS…

It seems the OCV’s informative campaign had good results. I delayed two weeks to begin the activities waiting for new volunteers. Last week was the first time we went to Portiño. The group was formed with five new volunteers: Ariana, Laura, Lucía, Yanmei Li and Ismael , and me, and this week we received one more, Inés, and, very important, a veteran one, Almudena. Meanwhile, we wait for another veterans: Alberto, who is still in Venezuela in a cooperation project, and Silvia, improving her English in Malta.

These first two sessions have been a bit madness. The new people must adapt to the project. The children are very cheerful with the new people, so they are more mischievous than the usual . We have logistics problems: most of volunteers must take a bus to the other side of the city, then we must walk around 1.5 Km without sidewalks nor shelter under the rain. It is not important. We will be a great group with great new ideas to work, that’s the important thing actually