Liam on Linux

Here is the summary: By the '90s microcomputers (computers based on single microprocessors) grew big enough to run Real OSes with memory protection etc.

[HN again] We are heading for 2º C global warming by 2040, possibly by 2030.

[Nicked from myself on HN.]

[Nicked from a later comment to the previous one.]

[Nicked from a Lobsters comment...]

From Reddit I learn that a new generation of LLM bots is getting really really good at finding exploitable vulnerabilities in large C codebases, and making exploits for them.

I am risking the one full-time paid developer of Haiku popping up here and shouting at me, because he's done that a few times before and even written to my editor-in-chief to complain.

It is very odd to me to watch OStree-based distros starting to take off and win recruits.

I came across my name in a scan of the February 2001 Personal Computer World.

I think there are many.

(Repurposed HN comment.)

No, honest, it did.

A tech blogger called Nemanja Trifunovic posted an enjoyable article called the History of the GEM Desktop Environment.

In response to Apple vs.

Apple macOS is a UNIX™.

A response to an HN comment...

Spent much of today getting a Live AROS USB key working, which wasn't trivial... it needed a USB 3 key, which I had to go and buy specially.

Since I know there are some folks who read this but may not read my Register stuff.

It is one of the oddest things in computing that stuff to me, as a big kid of heading for 60 years old but who still feels quite young and enjoys learning and exploring, that the early history of Linux – a development that came along mid-career for me – a…

The personal histories involved are highly relevant and they are one of the things that get forgotten in boring grey corporate histories.

(Especially Haiku.)

The Zaurus SL-5500 was an early, tiny, Linux pocket computer-cum-PDA.

From a Reddit post.

I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment. https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos This is very rushed and the instru…

I learned about a new DIY machine to me, the Cody Computer.