Posts Tagged by GNU

20 years of Linux

August 25, 2011 Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series, News
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I’ve seen a few messages wishing happy birthday to the Linux kernel. I’m not sure how software can have a “birth”-day, but whatever. The Inquirer reminds us that today is the 20th anniversary of Linus Torvalds’s announcement to the world that his kernel was in existence and under development. Which reminded me about the video… read more

“Why can’t it work like a TV?”

April 13, 2011 Posted by Karl Beecher under General software engineering
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The research of Andrew Tanenbaum (who, like me, is based in a “Free” university, but his is “Vrije” where mine is “Freie”) has long involved computer operating systems, and he reserves many disparaging opinions about their general state. He regards a number of common OS concepts as obsolete, be they file systems largely unchanged since… read more

The Penguin and the Gnu

January 21, 2010 Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series
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Another episode of Computer FLOSS, a YouTube series aimed at educating about FLOSS. This episode is about two flagships of the FLOSS movement (GNU and Linux), how they came to be and how they relate. The Penguin and the Gnu Yes, all right. No series about free and open source software would be complete without… read more

The Six-Way Epic: Digging Further into FLOSS Repositories

September 1, 2009 Posted by Karl Beecher under Research
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Not too long ago, I announced the publishing of my first journal article co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. My mother was very proud — even if she did not understand a single word of it. I will give a brief summary of the article in this post, and if I succeed in whetting… read more

What is Open Source?

January 27, 2009 Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series
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Computer Floss, the video series that aims to enlighten the general audience about free/open source software. Here is a transcript of the first episode: Welcome to Computer Floss, a series of videos all about the the open source software movement. In this series I’ll be trying to enlighten and inform you about what open source… read more