Stories by lproven

Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)

Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX

The 8-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80

Why does Windows use backslash as path separator? (2019)

Miracle-WM tiling wm hits 0.2.0, and explaining X, Mir and Wayland

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins than ever

Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs

Qt Ubuntu remixes show that there's room for the flavours to innovate

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug

Novell – If at first you don't succeed

AlmaLinux 9.4 in beta, & CIQ has an alternative approach to compatible kernels

NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with root disk encryption and syscall limitations

GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanic architecture

OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System

PumpkinOS and RePalm: FOSS PalmOS-Compatibles in C21

LXC, Incus and Lxcfs hit v6, first LTS – and Canonical's original, LXD, updated

VSI prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program hard, with no more Alpha or Itanium editions

"One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix."

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