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Stories by lproven

ClonOS: FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliances (clonos.convectix.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by lproven Sep 2, 2025 freebsdosdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment and a set of applications in Common Lisp (project-mage.org)
L 8 pts 20 comments by lproven Jan 14, 2023 emacslispvcs Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective (donhopkins.medium.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by lproven Nov 1, 2022 programming Programming (General) thread
The History of CP/M, by Dr Gary Kildall (from Dr. Dobb's) (retrotechnology.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by lproven Apr 10, 2024 historicalosdev Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Latency numbers every programmer should know, scaled to human terms (gist.github.com)
L 7 pts 5 comments by lproven Mar 21, 2023 compsciperformance Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Comparing taskbars & desktop panels, & musing on the One True Linux Way (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
L 7 pts 2 comments by lproven Jan 30, 2021 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
linux-ia64: Linux fork with IA-64 support re-added. See http://t2sde.org/ for an Itanium-enabled Linux distribution (github.com)
L 6 pts 5 comments by lproven Nov 4, 2024 linuxosdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
pipeinstall: A list of projects that use a shell pipe and cURL or Wget to install themselves (kubikpixel.github.io)
L 6 pts 20 comments by lproven Dec 20, 2023 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
TinyApps -- an interesting resource for retro Windows (& PalmOS & early Mac OS X) (tinyapps.org)
L 6 pts 0 comments by lproven May 19, 2023 historicalmacwindows Apple / macOS / iOSGaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The UNIX Koans (prirai.github.io)
L 6 pts 8 comments by lproven May 6, 2023 cultureunix Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a microcomputer (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
L 6 pts 5 comments by lproven Oct 7, 2022 historical Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
GitHub - naftaliharris/tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, and libraries backported from Python 3 (github.com)
L 6 pts 5 comments by lproven Oct 6, 2022 programmingpython Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS? (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
L 6 pts 4 comments by lproven Oct 10, 2020 historicallinuxosdev Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing (web.archive.org)
L 5 pts 1 comments by lproven Nov 18, 2025 lawwindows Programming (General) thread
A CEO's Guide to Emacs (web.archive.org)
L 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Sep 16, 2025 editorsemacs Programming (General) thread
HP-RT real-time VME operating system – OpenPA.net (openpa.net)
L 5 pts 3 comments by lproven Dec 12, 2024 historicalosdev Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The Plan for Helios NG - a FOSS cluster-native OS derived from TRIPOS (2014) (geekdot.com)
L 5 pts 4 comments by lproven Aug 23, 2023 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Emu68: bare-metal 680x0 emulation, to run Amiga OS and AROS on Raspberry Pi (github.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Sep 26, 2022 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Picoputer: RP Pico Hardware Transputer – Stack Based With OS in Hardware (trochilidae.blogspot.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Apr 24, 2022 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
SMSQ/E - the operating system for the Sinclair QL (youtu.be)
L 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Apr 2, 2021 osdevvideo Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
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)
L 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Dec 22, 2020 virtualization Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
OpenSlopware deleted, forked, and revived – by me on El Reg (theregister.com)
HN 5 pts 3 comments by lproven Jan 18, 2026 thread
WDC's unreleased W65C832 (32-bit 6502) CPU implemented in an FPGA (github.com)
HN 5 pts 0 comments by lproven Aug 22, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own - George Johnson (aliciapatterson.org)
L 4 pts 0 comments by lproven Apr 9, 2025 aihistorical AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Building products with NetBSD – thin-clients (2009) (bsdcan.org)
L 4 pts 1 comments by lproven May 3, 2024 netbsdpdfslides Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
TextEd: an ultra-lightweight plain-text editor for macOS in under 255kB (github.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by lproven Jul 16, 2022 mac Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread
2025 is a mast year. That's an opportunity (bbc.co.uk)
HN 4 pts 1 comments by lproven Sep 28, 2025 thread
A New Compact: a magical new license for open sourcerors (opensourcerer.eu)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by lproven Sep 6, 2025 Programming (General) thread
Program development in Limbo (the native lang of Inferno, Unix 3.0) (seh.dev)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by lproven Aug 2, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Your irregular status update: upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding situation update (patreon.com)
L 3 pts 2 comments by lproven Nov 1, 2023 linuxosdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread