Few months ago, my friend – mulander has shown me AuroraUX, an OS mostly written in Ada. It’s a very interesting project because of a few reasons. First of all, this system is based on OpenSolaris. The kernel is based on Sun’s but it has been modified to open closed parts for everyone. Developers want to make this more secure than other Unix or Windows, they say that “users who want military grade security” should choose AuroraUX. You can read about project goals here and in FAQ.
The above example shows that Ada can be used for serious plans but people have chosen this for greater ideas before. It was created for the United States Department of Defense. If you want to know who’s currently using this, check this site. Why so many people are impressed by this? A code is simple to read and (I think) easy to modify. Documentation can be easily done by someone who’s not an owner of a code. Team programming is convenient, without many problems of understanding a source of a program.
Ada seems to be a serious programming language. I’d like to get to know more about programming in this when I’d have free time. Maybe you want to do this too?
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Yesterday I modified main page of blog.ega.org.pl site. Since now, last 15 posts from every blog will be shown there. I think it’s a good idea to promote your (dev)blog.
Also, there’s already installed plugin called “Domain Mapping“. Thanks to that, I can connect my devblog with defc0n.ega.org.pl domain. You can use your own domain too! All you have to do is:
- set your domain record on DNS server to 91.121.104.175;
- configure the plugin in your administration panel (tools->domain mapping);
- tell me about that (I have to configure httpd to work with your domain).
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After a long break, EGA’s starting again! Here’s my own devblog.
There’s a lot of changes. First of all, I’ve installed WordPress for blogs, SMF for forum and MediaWiki for wiki. I think that many people will be happier because of that. CMS is still written in Ruby on Rails. I only had to migrate this from PostgreSQL to MySQL again. Reason? Good integration with SMF and MediaWiki. Thanks to my bridge, you have to sign up by main website and you’ll be logged in other stuff.
In future, there will be some cool features on main site with AJAX animations.
Enjoy!
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