What is free software and why is it so important for society? — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software</tithttps://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
than one of our own computers in our own home, we could be caught and fined or put in jail. That’s what’s in the fine print of the license agreement you accept when using propriet
The FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom.
Linuxhttps://www.billdietrich.me/Linux.html
to servers to supercomputers. Same is not true of Windows and Mac, although you do find Windows in ATMs and vending machines and other odd places. Miscellaneous Standards / projec
Linux operating system basics, parts, myths, and truths
Archivehttps://jxself.org/archive.shtml
digital age, our computers have become central to so many aspect of our lives. Yet, how much control do we have over the software that powers these machines? Proprietary software
Kernel Planethttps://planet.kernel.org/
with all other computers in the universe, delegate work to them, and control them (this was very futuristic in 1978, pre-Internet as we know it). Orac was considered the most valu
The Craft of Text Editinghttps://www.finseth.com/craft/
predated most personal computers and workstations. There had even been a chapter in an early draft that attempted to prove that it was not possible to implement an Emacs-type text
How to start with CP/Mhttp://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/howto_cpm.html
CP/M-68K on 68000 based computers.) 8080/8085/Z80 computers of the 1970's and 80's can be found; check this part of my document about old and new CP/M computers. A popular option
PTBSync Desktop Organizerhttps://netcult.ch/elmue/Desktop-Organizer/
5.7b : Bugfix: On some computers version 5.7 produced elevated CPU load. New in Version 5.7 : Adapted to run on Windows 8. Bugfix JavaScript Error: ";" expected. Improved Internet
The Nascom Home Pagehttp://www.nascomhomepage.com/#TheNascomRepository/pdf/Keys
on and I bought more computers but didn't stop using my CP/M Nascom 2/Gemini hybrid system until I bought my first PC (around 1994). However thanks to CP/M emulators and vnascom I
Storieshttps://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/stories.html
- Mar 02, 2013 Doing computers in the State of Washington - from Jordan Stedman , - Feb 17, 2013 Video Oral Histories of William Jolitz (FreeBSD) and Herb Kanner (research how com
Online BYTE Archivehttps://halfhill.com/bytelink.html
the most crash-prone computers ever built is that reliability has never been a high priority — either for the industry or for users. [Cover story: April 1998] Why Mainframes
Sky Nethttp://www.sonex.org/SkyNet.html
to this, ideal Silicon computers will be available in summer of 2011. This chip speed acceleration is necessary for getting tons of good computers all over the globe to counter th
Sky Net: What makes nukes fly, what commands navies and armies, what makes all organisms think and intercommunicate, and what tweaks all the Ons in the universe, Sky Command: Defen
Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future [LWN.net]https://lwn.net/Articles/500231/
race for control of our computers? Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future Posted Jun 6, 2012 9:21 UTC (Wed) by steveriley (guest, #83540) [ Link ] (2 responses) This is rathe
The UEFI secure boot mechanism has been the source of a great deal of concern in the free softw [...]
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