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Why are some programs seemingly timeless? Why haven’t they yet been replaced by newer software? What keeps drawing users to use them and developers to develop them further? My hypothesis: Every progr…
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Why? Because the RMS fire has extinguished, and now the developers code for funmust http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/…
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It shows that there is a strong focus on the users that /aren’t/ the developers, that aren’t the traditional audience of Linux http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/gtk-fesses-up-this-aint-for-yo…
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the U.S. Army is “the” single largest install base for Red Hat Linux http://archive09.linux.com/feed/61302…
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I’m so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let’s call it the “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers” model, or “CADT” for short. It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if…
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Theodore Ts'o doesn’t understand how this **** works either. I do find it very difficult sometimes to figure out why a particular systemd service gets started, and when I tried putting together a…
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At a finer grain, microkernel processes behave with semantics that are compatible with actors in object oriented programming. Therefore, microkernels may provide a better substrate for parallel progra…
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Symbolics is committing suicide with its own development plansBut programming is not only about art, it’s also about performance. And when it comes to performance, it’s either put up or shut up. ftp:…
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BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.…
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… Linux is for people who hate Microsoft, FreeBSD is for people who love Unix. http://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/2afi7c/why_is_it_freebsd_so_unpopular_in_contrast_to/…
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(From this Slashdot thread): There are three approaches to computing. There’s the commercial-ubiquitous approach. This is Microsoft’s approach. Try to support (or to get manufacturers to support) as…
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“You are not the user” should be tattooed on the insides of the eyelids of every techie everywhere. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/why-did-google-decide-to-split-inbox-from-gmail/…