U.S. Department of Labor data suggest that systems analysts and software engineers comprise two of the fastest-growing six job categories through 2016. With 80 percent growth in Linux job postings over the last five years, according to the Linux Foundation, it could well be that these categories will be dominated by Linux geeks.
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It's in this forum because you want software to access a portable device. The software forum is for general applications that don't belong anywhere else. :)
One week ago, Mandriva Cooker, which will lead to version 2010 Spring in about 6 months, was opened again.
In 8 days, this has resulted in almost 1100 package updates. Frederik's Blog highlights some noteworthy changes.
Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++.
"There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages," the company says.
More at The Register.
Microsoft has pulled a Windows 7 media and administration tool from the Microsoft Store site for apparently violating the GPL.
The company yanked ImageMaster after Within Windows blogger Rafael Rivera spotted the disc reading and burning tool was a CodePlex project licensed under GPLv2.
More at The Register.