Threading Building Blocks Packaged into Ubuntu Hardy Heron

By Kevin Farnham (108 posts) on January 11, 2008 at 10:19 am

In my last post I mentioned that Sadiq Jaffer had created Ubuntu Bug #181137, requesting syncing of the Debian TBB packages into Ubuntu Hardy Heron, which is scheduled to be released in late April.

Despite the fact that the Hardy Heron Debian import freeze occured on December 13, the Ubuntu team has chosen to sync the TBB Debian packages. So, Threading Building Blocks will be available for installation as an Ubuntu package in the Hardy Heron release.

Thanks again, Sadiq!

Kevin Farnham, O'Reilly Media, TBB Open Source Community, Freenode IRC #tbb, TBB Mailing Lists

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Categories: Multicore, Open Source, Threading Building Blocks

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By O'Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog on February 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
links from Technorati, requesting inclusion of TBB in Hardy Heron. A few days later, we found out that, despite the fact that the Hardy Heron import freeze had already occurred, the Ubuntu team was going to sync Hardy Heron with the Debian TBB packages (see myannouncement post). This is great news given Ubuntu’s position as one of the leading Linux distributions for desktop applications. As more people have high-powered multicore systems at home and in the office, the necessity to be able to develop multithreaded


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