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• 2006
  Multics was an extraordinarily influential operating system developed well-documented, well-designed operating system.
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• 2007/11-05
  ... are still discovered in major software almost every day. However, runtime-system countermeasures, such as non-executable stacks and stack protection or "can
  833 B (122 words) - 02:59, 6 November 2007
• 2007/11-12
  |abstract=The Debian package system controls every aspect of the installation and configuration of software on
  1 KB (239 words) - 01:45, 12 November 2007
• 2007/11-19
  ...ing: a rich static type system. In Haskell the programmer has in the type system a powerful theorem-prover ready at hand, and if the programmer's theorem is This cluedump will briefly introduce Haskell and its type system, describe the Curry-Howard isomorphism between code with types and proposit
  3 KB (423 words) - 07:48, 24 May 2008
• Cluedumps 2007
  How can a large, distributed system make available naming and directory information? On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) is used to map names to IP addresses,
  2 KB (236 words) - 19:53, 14 September 2008
• 2008/11-11
  The Linux kernel is the core of a large and complex operating system, and while it's huge, it is well organized in terms of subsystems and layer
  422 B (68 words) - 01:01, 3 November 2008
• 2009/Git
  Git is a free software distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It is in
  596 B (93 words) - 23:11, 19 October 2009
• 2008/10-21
  Git is a free software distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It is i
  695 B (104 words) - 23:56, 21 December 2012
• 2009/Linux
  ...he mid-80's) that it needed a graphical environment and wrote the X Window System. While X is still as important as ever, many other layers of important desk ...tended for anyone who's used a modern Linux desktop and is curious how the system works; people who have perhaps heard of a couple of the projects I mentione
  1 KB (210 words) - 06:31, 9 November 2009
• 2009/PGP
  ...ork on. Unlike other public-key infrastructures (such as MIT's certificate system) that rely on an absolutely trusted root principal, trust in PGP is an indi
  1 KB (217 words) - 02:32, 30 November 2009
• 2010/11-02
  LaTeX is a document preparation system especially well-suited for technical and mathematical documents. It is an
  880 B (140 words) - 02:34, 15 September 2010
• 2011/09-20
  * how to check out code stored in a revision control system and apply patches to it
  2 KB (353 words) - 00:28, 12 October 2011
• 2011/10-04
  ...such as Git. Unlike public-key infrastructures (such as MIT's certificate system) in which participants rely on a trusted authority, PGP keeps trust an indi
  2 KB (285 words) - 15:08, 14 September 2011
• 2011/11-01
  ...e MIT Websurvey service and how it takes advantage of the CouchDB database system. CouchDB is one of the new generation of "noSQL" databases. While there are
  589 B (93 words) - 21:20, 24 October 2011
• 2013/Zephyr
  This week’s cluedump topic is Zephyr, MIT’s unique chat system, and popular Zephyr clients such as Roost, a browser-based client, and Barn
  587 B (95 words) - 18:40, 8 September 2014
• 2016/Uber
  ... the choices drivers can make to optimize their individual earnings on the system. For a quick synopsis, see media coverage from [http://www.theawl.com/2015
  3 KB (443 words) - 00:39, 21 April 2016
• 2016/Timezones
  ...cated they are and why if anyone ever needs someone to code up a time zone system you should not volunteer.
  650 B (98 words) - 01:36, 28 July 2016
• 2016/CoreOS
  Kubernetes is a powerful system for operating application containers across a cluster of machines. In this
  2 KB (306 words) - 21:02, 26 September 2016
• 2016/LaTeX
  ... talk, I will discuss some of the finer points of LaTeX's syntax and macro system, how to write your own macros that generate macros that generate macros, an
  939 B (148 words) - 02:55, 21 October 2016
• 2016/Builds
  ... work of the Debian community to create an entirely reproducible operating system. You will leave with a clear understanding of the nuances and challenges of
  2 KB (256 words) - 22:33, 1 December 2016