Improving the quality of GNU/Linux distributions

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1240-1246

  Boender, Jaap ^a   Di Cosmo, Roberto ^a   Vouillon, Jerôme ^a   Durak, Berke ^b   Mancinelli, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; WORD PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC WAY; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; GNU/LINUX; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 51949105876     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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