The History of MSThe History of MS
Jeff Bailey writes about the last 26 years of Microsoft [1]. He gives Microsoft credit for “saving us from the TRS 80”, however CP/M-86 was also an option for the[...]
Category: Linux
The New OLPCThe New OLPC
TED has a post about the design of the new OLPC [1]. I never liked the previous OLPCs [2], for my use a machine needs a better keyboard than the[...]
Ideas to Copy from Red HatIdeas to Copy from Red Hat
I believe that the Red Hat process which has Fedora for home users (with a rapid release cycle and new versions of software but support for only about one year)[...]
Release Dates for DebianRelease Dates for Debian
Mark Shuttleworth has written an interesting post about Ubuntu release dates [1]. He claims that free software distributions are better able to meet release dates than proprietary OSs because they[...]
Making Linux DVDsMaking Linux DVDs
Anthony Towns writes about using an improved version of jigdo to download CD/DVD images [1]. His improvement is basically to pipeline operation for better performance. Jigdo (the Jigsaw download) is[...]
Motivation and PerspectiveMotivation and Perspective
Patrick Winnertz writes about the demotivating effect of unreasonable delays on joining the Debian project [1]. While I agree that things need to be improved in terms of getting people[...]
Resizing the Root FilesystemResizing the Root Filesystem
Uwe Hermann has described how to resize a root filesystem after booting from a live-cd or recovery disk [1]. He makes some good points about resizing an LVM PV (which[...]
Software Development is a Team SportSoftware Development is a Team Sport
Albert writes about software development and how much teamwork is used [1]. He makes an interesting clash of analogies by suggesting that it’s not a “team sport” because “its not[...]
Debian Work and UpstreamDebian Work and Upstream
Steve Kemp writes about security issues with C programs [1]. It seems obvious that if you are going to do something that is overly tricky (such as anything related to[...]
Athlon Memory ProblemsAthlon Memory Problems
I had an old Compaq Athlon 1GHz system that seemed to be broken. It would display random things on the screen from the BIOS and fail the boot, it looked[...]