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Open Source Haggadah, chapter 1

Tonight starts the Jewish holiday of Passover, the story of the Hebrews' supposed escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. The story is told every year at a seder, in a tradition that takes the form of the youngest child asking four questions and the elders...

Tags: Exodus, Kernel, Minix, Open Source, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Linux vs. Unix

Back on September 12, fellow blogger Marc Wagner wrote a long rebuttal to my comment that the Linux community should stop trying to make Linux look like Windows and just let Linux be Linux. As part of that he first described Linux as "based upon UNIX" but then went on...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, Linux, Minix

Blog posts 2005-11-02

Sun's open-source gamble

Sun's open-source gambleNeutrality of Linux.Linux is owned by anyone who wants to exploit it. But it's controlled by big companies looking for cheap software.Mr. Schwartz gets it, partly:And I think when IBM acquires either Red Hat or Novell, I think the scales will fall from peoples' eyes and they'll...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, BSD Licence, licence, Linux, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., open source, Anton, Sun Microsystems Inc., Minix, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-02-07

MiniX 3.5.1 (Mac)

This is a script for ircle 3.0.x that includes many useful features such as: Encrypted Chat (40 bit blowfish)Ignore/Redirect +vNick CompletionAway/URL LoggerNick ColorizerText HighlitingSplit DetectionMessage WindowsJoin BroadcasterCustom CTCP Replies In addition to the features above it also contains rewritten versions of the shortcuts included with ircle 3.0.x.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Feature, Minix, BlackJack Counter

Software downloads 2000-11-15

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Linux as Wintel parasite

You have some questionable ideas.If Microsoft hadn't happened, there still would have been the PC, there still would have been GUIs perhaps a more expensive IBM monopoly one, and there still would have been the opportunity for anyone such as Linus to write a free alternative.I think to even use...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Wintel, Linux, interrupt, parasite, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., hardware, Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-09-26

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?Interesting! There is no way that you can start from scratch these days and have a usable OS in a reasonable time. Look how long it has taken Linux distros to catch up to Mac and Windows and they...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, OS Kylin, U.S, security

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another's IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it...

Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2

Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-08

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...

Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Why Linux owes (part of) its success to Microsoft

Why Linux owes part of its success to MicrosoftFascinatingRMS was the one with the open source ideas. Not Torvalds.. Torvalds found nothing usefull for his brand new 80386. After approaching Tanenbaum and asking whether more features and support could be implemented in Minix. He came to write his own OS....

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, microkernel, RISC machine, Linux STILL, Linux, Unix, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise

Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Get Up To Speed: Linux

If you are asked what an operating system is, you may not know the answer. If you are asked what Windows is in reference to your computer you probably have an idea. But what about Linux? Linux, like Microsoft Windows, is an operating system. Unlike MS...

Tags: Operating System, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software

Download resources 2008-06-12

Who's interested in a non-Apple Mac?

Who's interested in a non-Apple Mac?Apple the hardware companycan not afford to lose business to a clone as they make little money off of the OS itself.[i]Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war![/i]wrong priceYou cannot compare the $399 fo this system with the $599 for mac mini...

Tags: BIOS, Desktops, Operating systems, non-Apple Mac, Apple Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

A quick comment on Singularity

I've received a few emails over the last few days from people wanting to know whether I think that Microsoft's Singularity OS will eventually push Unix aside, first in academia and then in business. No. Singularity has an odd history...

Tags: Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-08

Android SDK update M5 has big changes for developers

Android SDK update M5 has big changes for developersyup that's the best code documentation I've ever seen tooit blows away documentation on the linux kernel, bsd kernel, minix kernel, all microsoft documentation (.net and the good stuff). In fact, I've never seen such good documentation.Pretty awesome, Google. Goes a long...

Tags: Android SDK, big change, SDK

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

The state of Unix (Jun 18/07)

As most people know Linus Torvalds tore a rant out of Sun last week - here's part of what he said: Here's a cynical prediction but backed up by past behaviour of Sun: - first off: they may be...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Competition, Sun Solaris, Ingo Molnar, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-26

"Back that truck up"

"Back that truck up"Who says?[i]A big part of the dominant wintel mythology, for example, is based on three beliefs, all of them wrong[/i]And here I thought that the big part of the dominant wintel mythology was that WinTel offered consumers the most flexibility at the lowest price. Silly me!Successful dominant...

Tags: Wintel

Discussion threads 2007-12-21

Linux is Unix

Linux is UnixOn the wholeMy attitude to both Unix and Windows is one of bemused forbearance. I have some ideas of what I want from an operating system and neither seems to come very near to them. I accept that implementing my own ideas is probably beyond my powers (certainly...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, LINUX IS

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Linux is Unix

Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference.The reality here is simple: Linus Torvalds started out by hacking the Minix kernel to use x86 interupts, graduated from there to announce his project...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Paul Murphy, Unix, Linux, Intel x86, Sun Solaris

Blog posts 2007-08-13

A comment about SCO/Novell

A comment about SCO/NovellWhat goes around comes aroundSco's attack on Linux using baseless claims of Unix IP violations has come full circle. They've more or less put themselves out of business by betting on a FUD campaign founded on nothing more than wishful thinking.[the copyright issue really has nothing to...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., Linux, IP, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-12