Whenever I am asked whether Linux is trustworthy or not for critical applications I cite statistics from top500.org. That’s a list of the top 500 commercial supercomputers that are known. Every six months the list is updated and the Linux share of supercomputers keeps growing.
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NIC Act of Mauritius to be amended
While announcing legislation amendments, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance & Economic Development, Hon. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, referred to amendments in the National Identity Card Act of Mauritius. Item C.7 of the Budget 2017-18 speech says:
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Budget 2017-18, where are we with Open Data?
In his 2017-18 budget speech, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance & Economic Development of Mauritius, Hon. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth announced the setting up of an Open Data Portal under the category “Making further strides on our ambition of a fully-fledged digital economy”. Item no. 138 says:
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Anti-shutdown policy proposal
The Africa Internet Summit 2017 (AIS 2017) happened during the weeks of 21st May 2017 to 2nd June 2017. On the 31st May 2017 Public Policy Discussions were on the agenda. I attended remotely thanks to the live stream and live chat provisions made by AFRINIC.
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Functional Programming by Renghen
Despite the bad weather condition we had eighteen people who showed up for the Functional Programming meetup organized by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community.
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