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Ubuntu is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Debian. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: Desktop, Server, and Core. All the editions can run on the computer alone, or e.g. in Windows. Ubuntu is a popular operating system for cloud computing, with support for OpenStack.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.
Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer and comedian. Fisher is best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards.
21 October is all about apples. At least if it goes to our British neighbours, this date since 1990 as the national day of the apple celebrate.
Microsoft Lumia is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile. Introduced in November 2011, the line was the result of a long-term partnership between Nokia and Microsoft as such, Lumia smartphones run on Microsoft software, the Windows Phone operating system; and later the newer Windows 10 Mobile.
On 22 October, friends of the cultivated capitalization around the world - ATTENTION - Wordplay - will be celebrating in big style. Since the year 2000 this date stands for the International Day of CAPS LOG.
Randolph Frederick Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Since 1991, the US American Day of the Mole has been celebrating the chemical unit of measurement. Sometimes you are astonished again and again what there is a special day for.
Happy birthday iPod. On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod to the astonished world public. The US National iPod Day commemorates this and celebrates a device that has revolutionized the way people listen to music.
Robert Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman.
The 24th of October is celebrated in Germany as the national day of libraries. After all, we have around 11,000 libraries in the land of poets and thinkers, whose extensive offerings are to be honoured today with numerous events and campaigns.
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
The Council of Elrond was the secret council called by Elrond in Rivendell in order to decide what should be done with the One Ring, during the Great Years in the Third Age. Those present at this council were people of the three largest races of good in Middle-earth: Men, Elves, and Dwarves.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was initially founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. On 29.10.1969 the first message was transmitted over the ARPANET.