On blood-lines, forks and survivors
The lineage of a classic operating system
Today, Debian celebrates its 27th birthday. It is now one of the oldest and most widespread Linux distributions with many offshoots and…
In a recent article, Ted T’so makes some interesting points on Sun’s motives behind OpenSolaris, and how it fares today in the FOSS ecosystem as a result. “Fundamentally, Open Solaris has been released under a Open Source license, but it is not an Open Source development community.” It’