Computer Floss » GNU http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Happy Birthday GNU! /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/ /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:40:03 +0000 /?p=1627 It was 30 years ago today that Richard Stallman announced something kind of crazy: he was going to initiate a project to implement a version of the Unix operating system that was completely free (as in freedom). He called the system GNU (GNU’s Not Unix) and his original announcement is preserved here as a piece […]

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]]> /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/feed/ 0 20 years of Linux /2011/08/20-years-of-linux/ /2011/08/20-years-of-linux/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:52:15 +0000 /blog/?p=988 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 […]

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]]> /2011/08/20-years-of-linux/feed/ 0 “Why can’t it work like a TV?” /2011/04/why-cant-it-work-like-a-tv/ /2011/04/why-cant-it-work-like-a-tv/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:16:16 +0000 /blog/?p=872 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 […]

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]]> /2011/04/why-cant-it-work-like-a-tv/feed/ 0 The Penguin and the Gnu /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/ /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:20:04 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=323 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 […]

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]]> /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/feed/ 1 The Six-Way Epic: Digging Further into FLOSS Repositories /2009/09/digging-further-into-floss-repositories/ /2009/09/digging-further-into-floss-repositories/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:06:57 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=233 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 […]

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]]> /2009/09/digging-further-into-floss-repositories/feed/ 1 What is Open Source? /2009/01/what-is-open-source-computer-floss/ /2009/01/what-is-open-source-computer-floss/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:10:54 +0000 http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/kbeecher/?p=10 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 […]

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