Distributed Artificial Life

DLIFE is a distributed version of Tom S. Ray's Tierra artificial life program. Note that the machine language used is similar to but not compatible with Tierra. Tom Ray talks about his work (as far as I know, never completed) to create a ``Digital Reserve''. The DLIFE project is a development of this.

In other words, it's an alternative to the tedious process of cracking RC5 keys or searching for aliens. You've got a supercomputer on your desk, let's go and create some life ...

News

Fri Apr 5 23:03:27 BST 2002

Version 1.0.0: Various fixes for Red Hat Linux 7.2.

Mon Oct 16 23:11:13 BST 2000

Version 0.0.16: Added another patch from Falk Hueffner which improves the Debian package handling.

Sat Oct 14 15:44:27 BST 2000

Version 0.0.15: Debian package (thanks to Falk Hueffner). Client and soup processes now log status information to syslog.

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All software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The latest version is @VERSION@, released @RELEASEDATE@.

Source code for client and server dlife-@VERSION@.tar.gz
Client: Binary RPM (for Red Hat, i686) dlife-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm
Server: Binary RPM (for Red Hat, i686) dlife-server-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm
Source RPM dlife-server-@VERSION@-1.src.rpm
Perl RPMs Various Perl RPMs which you may require ...

Patches from previous versions ...

Previous versions ...

Documentation


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Last modified: Mon Oct 16 23:11:50 BST 2000