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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...
The Dilbert comic strip from May 8, 2009, features a character supporting an improbable claim by saying "Give me ten minutes and then check Wikipedia." [ 304 ] In July 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a comedy series called Bigipedia , which was set on a website which was a parody of Wikipedia. [ 305 ]
Fairly secure and featuring configurable security, it allowed network- and file-access restrictions. Major web browsers soon incorporated the ability to run Java applets within web pages, and Java quickly became popular. The Java 1.0 compiler was re-written in Java by Arthur van Hoff to comply strictly with the Java 1.0 language specification. [26]
Since April 2024, 85% of devices have Vulkan graphics support (77.6% support Vulkan 1.1 or higher, thereof 6.6% supporting Vulkan 1.3), [447] the successor to OpenGL. At the same time 100.0% of the devices have support for OpenGL ES 2.0 or higher, 96% are on OpenGL ES 3.0 or higher, and 88.6% are using the latest version OpenGL ES 3.2 .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Type of extremely powerful computer For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). The Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory (pictured 2007) runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected ...
The first wireless products were brought to the market under the name WaveLAN with raw data rates of 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s. Vic Hayes , who held the chair of IEEE 802.11 for 10 years, and has been called the "father of Wi-Fi", was involved in designing the initial 802.11b and 802.11a standards within the IEEE . [ 14 ]
On the Internet, data is transmitted in the form of network packets. IPv6 specifies a new packet format , designed to minimize packet header processing by routers. [ 2 ] [ 14 ] Because the headers of IPv4 packets and IPv6 packets are significantly different, the two protocols are not interoperable.