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Stories by lproven

ClonOS: FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliances (clonos.convectix.com)
Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment and a set of applications in Common Lisp (project-mage.org)
Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective (donhopkins.medium.com)
The History of CP/M, by Dr Gary Kildall (from Dr. Dobb's) (retrotechnology.com)
Latency numbers every programmer should know, scaled to human terms (gist.github.com)
Comparing taskbars & desktop panels, & musing on the One True Linux Way (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
linux-ia64: Linux fork with IA-64 support re-added. See http://t2sde.org/ for an Itanium-enabled Linux distribution (github.com)
pipeinstall: A list of projects that use a shell pipe and cURL or Wget to install themselves (kubikpixel.github.io)
TinyApps -- an interesting resource for retro Windows (& PalmOS & early Mac OS X) (tinyapps.org)
The UNIX Koans (prirai.github.io)
How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a microcomputer (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
GitHub - naftaliharris/tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, and libraries backported from Python 3 (github.com)
Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS? (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing (web.archive.org)
A CEO's Guide to Emacs (web.archive.org)
HP-RT real-time VME operating system – OpenPA.net (openpa.net)
The Plan for Helios NG - a FOSS cluster-native OS derived from TRIPOS (2014) (geekdot.com)
Emu68: bare-metal 680x0 emulation, to run Amiga OS and AROS on Raspberry Pi (github.com)
Picoputer: RP Pico Hardware Transputer – Stack Based With OS in Hardware (trochilidae.blogspot.com)
SMSQ/E - the operating system for the Sinclair QL (youtu.be)
50-min talk by Marcel Kilgus, the current maintainer of SMSQ/E, the most capable descendant of the original Sinclair QL OS. Also discusses Minerva, a different, older OS which is the most modern descendant of QDOS that can run on the original Sinclair hardware.
Complete IBM PC DOS 2000 virtual hard disk image for VirtualBox (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
OpenSlopware deleted, forked, and revived – by me on El Reg (theregister.com)
WDC's unreleased W65C832 (32-bit 6502) CPU implemented in an FPGA (github.com)
Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own - George Johnson (aliciapatterson.org)
Building products with NetBSD – thin-clients (2009) (bsdcan.org)
TextEd: an ultra-lightweight plain-text editor for macOS in under 255kB (github.com)
2025 is a mast year. That's an opportunity (bbc.co.uk)
A New Compact: a magical new license for open sourcerors (opensourcerer.eu)
Program development in Limbo (the native lang of Inferno, Unix 3.0) (seh.dev)
Your irregular status update: upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding situation update (patreon.com)