Unlike laptops from most manufacturers, the Framework Laptop was designed from the outset to be sustainable; this lightweight, stylish beast is field-upgradable and field-repairable. In the company’s own words: "Proof that designing products to last doesn’t require sacrificing performance, …
Security often seems like a joke: there seem to be more, and better-funded, bad actors than security practitioners. What can the average person do? One thing would be to just stop using computers and smartphones. But 99.783281% of the two people I polled on that question wouldn’t go near that …
OpenBSD 6.9 was released on May 1, 2021, marking the 50th consecutive release from this project. Using a cadence of two releases a year (recently copied by e.g., the developers of Java), they’ve made two releases every year, through the dot-com bust, Y2K, the 2008 downturn, the 2021 pandemic. …
A neighbour asked:
There are plenty …Looking for help with my computer that has been *hijacked* by its Windows 10 operating system. Is there anyone out there who has advice regarding an alternative OS? Perhaps a LINUX version, or ????, or uninstall Win10 and go with Win7? I really HATE Win10!
As most readers know, I use the UNIX operating system, particularly OpenBSD, on all my computers. On desktops I flit about between several "desktop environments" or user interface systems. OpenBSD's default is a simple window manager called fvwm, but it also provides an extreme minimalist …
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the Internet Protocol, the software that …
CBR Online quotes senior Microsofthead Steve Ballmer speaking to analysts about their deal with Novell: "I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal, but I do think it clearly establishes that open source is not free," he said, "and open …
The frivolous lawsuit by SCO against IBM and Linux turned humorous when Bruce Perens revealed that the bits of "stolen" code they showed off were actually taken from V7 UNIX which SCO (when it was called Caldera, Inc.) released for all the world to use for free under a BSD-style license. …
CNN's technology writer Brian Clark agrees that OS X is UNIX for the masses.
My article on Caldera's freeing up of old UNIX version source code made it onto O'Reilly's OnLamp.