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2008

Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! jwz has recreated home.mcom.com, the original home of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, using a snapshot from 21st October 1994 and a domain borrowed from current owner AOL. Also includes instructions on running 1994 Mosaic Netscape binaries under a modern Linux distro.

# 31st March 2008, 5:54 pm / aol, browsers, history, jwz, linux, mosaic, netscape

From my perspective, it is crucial for Linux to have good support for Silverlight because I do not want Linux on the desktop to become a second class citizen ever again. [...] The core of the debate is whether Microsoft will succeed in establishing Silverlight as a RIA platform or not. You believe that without Moonlight they would not have a chance of success, and I believe that they would have regardless of us.

Miguel de Icaza

# 4th January 2008, 12:42 pm / linux, microsoft, miguel-de-icaza, moonlight, open-source, ria, roberto-callahan, silverlight

The strain due to the fact that most business desktops are locked into the Microsoft platform, at a time when both the Apple and GNU/Linux alternatives are qualitatively safer, better, and cheaper to operate, will start to become impossible to ignore.

Tim Bray

# 3rd January 2008, 1:08 pm / apple, linux, macos, microsoft, predictions, tim-bray, windows

2007

The future of web standards. Nice analysis from James Bennett, who suggests that successful open source projects (Linux, Python, Perl etc) could be used as the model for a more effective standards process, and points out that Ian Hickson is something of a BDFL for the WHAT-WG.

# 17th December 2007, 1:16 pm / bdfl, ian-hickson, james-bennett, linux, open-source, perl, python, standards, w3c, web-standards, whatwg

Don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Linus Torvalds

# 16th December 2007, 9:53 pm / evolution, linus-torvalds, linux, open-source, programming

BBC iPlayer now supports streaming Flash for Mac and Linux. Absolutely fantastic—it Just Works, you hit the homepage and you can be watching video in seconds. No need to even sign up for an account. I imagine IP ranges are used to block access from outside the UK.

# 14th December 2007, 12:36 pm / bbc, flash, iplayer, linux, mac, macos

Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released. JeOS = “Just enough Operating System”—a minimal Ubuntu image designed for creating “virtual applications” that are embedded in a VMWare (or similar) virtual machine.

# 18th November 2007, 12:22 am / jeos, linux, ubuntu, virtualisation, vmware

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price.

Bill Gates

# 11th July 2007, 3:09 pm / bill-gates, china, linux, piracy, salon

Dell to Offer Ubuntu. That right there is why I find Flex more interesting than Silverlight.

# 1st May 2007, 6:39 pm / dell, flash, flex, linux, silverlight, ubuntu

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released. Includes Iceweasel (Firefox), Icedove (Thunderbird), Iceape (Seamonkey) and Python 2.4.4 as standard.

# 8th April 2007, 6:25 pm / debian, linux, mozilla, python

As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".

Linus Torvalds

# 4th February 2007, 10:33 pm / funny, linus-torvalds, linux, superbowl

Linus Torvalds: Super Kernel Sunday! Linux kernel version 2.6.20 is out, and includes virtualization thanks to KVM.

# 4th February 2007, 10:32 pm / kernel, kvm, linus-torvalds, linux, virtualization

Linux Genuine Advantage. As with all the best parodies, this one ships with source code.

# 2nd February 2007, 5:29 pm / funny, linux, vista

Mono-based device wins Best-of-Show at CES. “The Sansa Connect is running Linux as its operating system, and the whole application stack is built on Mono, running on an ARM processor.”

# 17th January 2007, 11:21 pm / ces, hardware, linux, mono, open-source

Ubuntu Screencasts. Fantastic resource—exactly what Ubuntu (and desktop Linux in general) needs.

# 15th January 2007, 1:41 am / linux, screencasts, ubuntu

2006

DHS Funding Open Source Security. Paying for “source code analysis technology” coverage of Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and more.

# 17th January 2006, 10:18 pm / apache, dhs, linux, open-source, postgresql, security

2005

Enter the hedgehog

The Ubuntu community have released Hoary Hedgehog, otherwise known as Ubuntu 5.04. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet, it’s an excellent Linux distribution based on Debian with a strong focus on desktop usability. Unlike most Linux distros, Ubuntu comes with just one desktop manager (Gnome) and one obvious default application for each of the essentials: Firefox for browsing, OpenOffice for office work, Evolution for mail.

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2004

2003

Installing psycopg on Red Hat 9

Adrian Holovaty and I spent some time today figuring out how to get the psycopg Postgres module to install on Red Hat 9. It took a while, but eventually we tweaked the spec file and used it to compile our own RPM. I’ve posted our modified spec file to the psycopg mailing list. More for my own record than anything else, the arcane incantations needed to create the RPM went roughly as follows:

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Linux on the desktop at IBM

Spotted on Slashdot, IBM’s Open Source Desktop—Directions for today... and Tomorrow presentation includes one slide that really caught my attention:

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2002

Security and coding style

A couple of good web development security resources:

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Free books

I like free books (who doesn’t?), so when a story on Slashdot asked for book recommendations I started a thread asking for links to free technical books available online. Here’s a list compiled from the thread:

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