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- Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html 243 comments
- A Plea for Lean Software (1995) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html 133 comments
- Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89116.html 93 comments
- What if someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps? https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89039.html 6 comments
- “A Plea for Lean Software” by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (Non-PDF Version) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html 2 comments
- How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a micro https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/87578.html 27 comments
- The pivotal importance of IBM's PS/2 range on computers, even today https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/87108.html 84 comments
- On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86995.html 122 comments
- MS-DOS was *not* an illegal clone of CP/M https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85836.html 9 comments
- Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html 397 comments
- I think the GNOME designers are incompetent https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84023.html 147 comments
- The reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/83538.html 14 comments
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- Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html 63 comments design , historical , linux
- What if... someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps? https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89039.html 31 comments linux , osdev , unix
- How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a microcomputer https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/87578.html 5 comments historical
- I've been playing with OS/2 again -- more on that soon -- but it was doomed from a young age https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/87435.html 29 comments historical
- On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86995.html 4 comments hardware , philosophy
- A fresh look at FreeBSD https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86277.html 56 comments freebsd
- Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6 https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84930.html 8 comments historical , windows
- Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them? https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84476.html 12 comments historical , osdev
- Why I think the GNOME designers are incompetent https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84023.html 23 comments design , rant
- The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/83538.html 8 comments windows
- A Plea for Lean Software https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html 58 comments programming
- A Plea for Lean Software https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html 2 comments webdev
- Found a Linux review of mine from Sep 2000. Maybe the first Linux box review in a UK mag (PCW) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89116.html 17 comments linux
- What if... someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps? (Blog post, from an idle thought I had.) https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89039.html 25 comments plan9
- A fresh look at FreeBSD https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86277.html 5 comments bsd
- liam_on_linux | A fresh look at FreeBSD https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86277.html 15 comments freebsd
- The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/83538.html 75 comments programming