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1.

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened

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4 years ago

418 points

2.

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)

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2 years ago

144 points

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A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

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2 years ago

144 points

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On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times

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4 years ago

111 points

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Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago

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3 years ago

98 points

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I think the GNOME designers are incompetent

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4 years ago

94 points

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The pivotal importance of IBM's PS/2 range on computers, even today

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4 years ago

63 points

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How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a micro

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4 years ago

62 points

9.

The reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1

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4 years ago

43 points

10.

DOS live USB image with tools for writers

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a year ago

30 points

11.

MS-DOS was *not* an illegal clone of CP/M

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4 years ago

19 points

12.

“A Plea for Lean Software” by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (Non-PDF Version)

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4 years ago

10 points

13.

Plan 9 Is a Bicycle

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2 years ago

6 points

14.

What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

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6 months ago

6 points

15.

Plan 9 Is a Bicycle

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a year ago

6 points

16.

My review of the Tadpole-RDI Ultra Book lli from 25 years ago this month

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5 months ago

5 points

17.

May be the first year of a million CVEs

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3 months ago

4 points

18.

A Fresh Look at FreeBSD

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4 years ago

4 points

19.

What if someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps?

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3 years ago

3 points

20.

What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

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6 months ago

3 points

21.

How the Linux-vs-BSD culture clash looked in the 1980s/1990s

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7 months ago

3 points

22.

"Computers, back then": the story of ARRA, the first Dutch computer

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2 years ago

3 points

23.

Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6

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4 years ago

3 points

24.

On why Apple-haters are every bit as misguided as any fanboy

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4 years ago

3 points

25.

What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

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6 months ago

2 points

26.

Fun with the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (and an unexpected OpenBSD link)

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a year ago

2 points

27.

Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them?

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4 years ago

2 points

28.

Why FOSS OSes often don't have power management as good as proprietary ones

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a year ago

2 points

29.

Some Thoughts on Computers

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2 years ago

2 points

30.

"A Plea for Lean Software" by Prof. Niklaus Wirth

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2 years ago

2 points