| | "Computers, back then": the story of ARRA, the first Dutch computer (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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3 points by todsacerdoti 55 days ago | past
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| | [flagged] Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022) (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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144 points by signa11 6 months ago | past | 243 comments
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| | A Plea for Lean Software (1995) (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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144 points by thunderbong 7 months ago | past | 133 comments
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| | "A Plea for Lean Software" by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by Khaine 8 months ago | past
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| | Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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98 points by lproven on Sept 10, 2023 | past | 93 comments
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| | What if someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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3 points by lproven on Sept 9, 2023 | past | 6 comments
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| | “A Plea for Lean Software” by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (Non-PDF Version) (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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10 points by lproven on Oct 14, 2022 | past | 2 comments
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| | How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a micro (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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62 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 7, 2022 | past | 27 comments
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| | I've been playing with OS/2 again – more on that soon – but it was doomed fro (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 6, 2022 | past
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| | The pivotal importance of IBM's PS/2 range on computers, even today (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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63 points by AndrewDucker on Sept 29, 2022 | past | 84 comments
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| | On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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111 points by todsacerdoti on Sept 25, 2022 | past | 122 comments
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| | A Fresh Look at FreeBSD (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by ditados on Sept 9, 2022 | past
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| | A Fresh Look at FreeBSD (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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4 points by lproven on Sept 9, 2022 | past
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| | A Brief History of Virtualisation (my first eBook, recently deleted) (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by lproven on Sept 3, 2022 | past
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| | MS-DOS was *not* an illegal clone of CP/M (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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19 points by lproven on Aug 15, 2022 | past | 9 comments
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| | Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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418 points by JetSpiegel on July 27, 2022 | past | 397 comments
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| | Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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3 points by todsacerdoti on July 22, 2022 | past
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| | Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by todsacerdoti on July 13, 2022 | past | 1 comment
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| | I think the GNOME designers are incompetent (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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94 points by todsacerdoti on June 25, 2022 | past | 147 comments
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| | The reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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43 points by lproven on May 6, 2022 | past | 14 comments
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| | FOSS email client, and what's wrong with it (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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2 points by AndrewDucker on April 25, 2022 | past
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| | On why Apple-haters are every bit as misguided as any fanboy (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) |
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3 points by AndrewDucker on March 23, 2022 | past
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