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Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2017 14:00:35 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
Now Marc Pare has taken the stage at @KWLinuxfest - the future of Open Source Software -
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Schwag! @EckMeister has a book to give away: "LinuxPlus Guide to Linux Certification" by... Jason Eckert(!) -
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In the article, @jimmytidey@mastodon.social mentions a famous user of Mastodon, @Aral, but only provides his #Twitter URL. And the mascot is a Mastodon, not a Mammoth -
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@EckMeister waxes enthusiastic about the ZFS filesystem -
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Recommended reading: "Free As In Freedom" by @RMS; "Cathedral & The Bazaar" by Eric Raymond -
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At @KWLinuxfest, @EckMeister is showing us old commercials from IBM promoting !Linux -
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History of Tux The Penguin: in a Usenet newsgroup there was discussion of dragons & such until Linus said "I like penguins" -
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@EckMeister explains the "Distro": Same !Linux kernel and libraries, distributed with (different) additional software -
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By 1995 !Linux was so popular that Red Hat was created, and usage exploded -
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But in 1991 Linus Torvalds created a kernel based on Andrew Tanenbaum's book "Design and Implementation of Operating Systems" -
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[editorial comment by me] Although Open Source provides the source code, it does not necessary provide software freedom -
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and in 1994 Eric Raymond rebranded !FS to "Open Source" -
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In 1985 @RMS developed !GNU to be a free operating system -
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KT and DR sold the Unix source code; customers each created their own flavour: HPOS <> SunOS -
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But Multics was too expensive, and too big in scope. Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie reduced it in scope == Unix -
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@EckMeister tells us a portable OS was needed, so many corporations invented Multics -
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DIY: The history of !Linux goes back to the 1940s and adding machines from International Business Machines -
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Now up: Jason Eckert @eckmeister on the history of !Linux and Open Source (I think he means !FreeSoftware) -
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@KrisABraun shows the innards of the @KidsWiFi configuration from the command line -
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