Useless Use of Cat Award https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award Contents: Useless Use of cat Useless Use of kill -9 Useless Use of echo Useless Use of ls * Useless Use of wc -l Useless Use of grep | awk Useless Use of Backticks Useless Use of test →
It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux distributions will soon have their own Blue Screen of Death message. Windows’ infamous “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) is a bit of a punchline. People have made a hobby of spotting them out in the wild, and in some circles, they remain →
GNU project turned 40 years old few days ago. GNU turns 40: Stallman’s baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there’s cake It turned the software industry upside down regardless https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/20/gnu_turns_40/ Happy birthday to GNU. On September 27, there will be events in both the US and Switzerland to celebrate the 40th anniversary →
Linux 6.0 is expected to arrive soon. The next version of the Linux kernel is jumping version numbers, with some performance gains, but it’s not a major change all the same: What was previously planned to be version 5.20 is now Linux 6.0 according to Linux 5.19 announcement. There will be new hardware support. Especially →
Top 15 XKCD comics for Linux and Unix fans https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/top-xkcd-comics-for-linux-and-unix-fans/ Some examples what you will see: SANDWICH INCIDENT Those comics are from xkcd.com →
August 25th, 1991 That’s right, it’s been 30 years since 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the day of August 25th, 1991, on the comp.os.minix news group, saying that he is working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones as a “hobby.” https://9to5linux.com/happy-30th-birthday-linux →
Linux Kernel Nixes IDE Support In the Latest 5.14 Release Candidate https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-kernel-nixes-ide-support-in-the-latest-514-release-candidate Linux founder Linus Torvalds recently posted an update on the Linux Kernel Mailing List announcing the arrival of Linux kernel version 5.14. Perhaps the biggest change is the removal of legacy support for Parallel ATA (PATA), also referred to as ATAm or IDE. →
RISC-V is an interesting open hardware CPU. My Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? post from few years back told that RISC-V is the most promising open CPU design, but asked can it succeed in competitive CPU market? In a quite short history a lot has happened. Not it →
FTP is 50 years old article tells: The 16th of April 1971 is not only the date when the Rolling Stone first released Brown Sugar, it is also marked with the publication of RFC 114 marking the birthday of FTP. Back in those days, the Vietnam war is at the forefront of the news, TCP/IP →
On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen each announced a massive change in the future and function of CentOS Linux. Moving forward, there will be no CentOS Linux—instead, there will (only) be CentOS Stream. CentOS Linux is dead—and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”. CentOS Stream, founded →