"Rafaël Garcia-Suarez has put out the first release candidate for Perl 5.10.0. This will be the first new release of a production version of Perl in over 2½ years, so well worth taking a look at..."

In nearly 10 years of experimenting with, and, later, using Linux, I have never been presented with a situation where someone actually asked me to preside over their initial foray into the use of the open source operating system on a regular basis.

"Last week, the Perl Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation has awarded a development grant to Patrick Michaud to work on the Perl 6 on Parrot compiler. Thank you, Mozilla Foundation..."

Every student in grades one through eight in the Birmingham city school system will receive a laptop computer under a tentative agreement Mayor-elect Larry Langford has reached with a foundation that provides computers in developing countries, an adviser to Langford said Monday.

Sun Microsystems upstaged its own announcement in a keynote address here at Oracle OpenWorld today by making way for a surprise onstage visit to the company's keynote address by Michael Dell.

"Tim Berners-Lee opines on the direction of the mobile Internet on the opening day of Mobile Internet World conference in Boston."

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"I fully acknowledge that. And I assume all the blame for it, too. I want to do something about it, but I’ve been far, far (far!) too swamped for the last six months to do more than acknowledge the need. So, I’m pleading for your help. Here’s what I’d like to happen..."