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PCLinuxOS: My Number One Linux Distribution

billb — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:55:44 -0600

April 29 2009: Added PCLOS 2009 section
May 22 2009: Added PCLOS 2009.1 GNOME version.

PCLOS 2009

PCLinuxOS has been a favorite Linux distribution in recent years. The PCLOS 2009.1 ( with updates from the repository ) lives up to and beyond expectations for a minimally complex and very stable KDE 3 desktop environment. Kudos to founder Texstar and the growing circle of core PCLOS developers for their hard work producing the ultimate "Disto Hopper Stopper".

andLinux - A New Level of Linux/Windows Interoperability ?

billb — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:04 -0600

An interesting development in the evolution of Linux, almost a new species of Linux as it were.

andLind is a native port of the Linux kernel and Ubuntu to run as an application under Windows 2000. The two versions support either XFCE or KDE. With a few restrcitions.

Puppy Linix - Puplets, Derivatives, etc.

billb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:39:28 -0600

It's new, it's edgy and in your muzzle, it's pawing its way to the top of distrowatch.com download rankings and nosing out the competition. The future King of the Multimedia Kennel.

Smalltalk - The Language That Refuses to Die

billb — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:36:13 -0600

Update Sept 7 2008: Added link to article Smalltalk Jobs

Mea Culpa

First, I offer the reader a confession: I gave Smalltalk up for dead ten years ago.

I'm not proud of it. I had a choice between being an advocate of superior software technology or being an up-to-date payer of mortgages. I decided on mortgage payments. In the intervening years of C++, Visual Basic and Java, I didn't look back too much. Other than recalling how I solved a problem in Smalltalk and an occasional bout of Squeak watching, Smalltalk was a thing of the past.

The Great SOA Versus OO Debate

billb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:43:41 -0600

This page was moved to A Debate About SOA Versus Objects on the Home site.

Puppy and XAMPP ( XUPPY or PAMPP ? )

billb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:39:49 -0600

Updated Sept 29 2008: see end of article

I finally got XAMPP working correctly on multisession CD. No, not symlinks, although it looked like it for a while.

Copy down from the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum:

Squeak + Puppy = Squeaky Pet ?

billb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:29:19 -0600

So far, I've got Squeak installed on Puppy 210 and 2.16 disk installations. No go for CD / multi-session CD, no surprises there. Need to stick symlinks in appropriate places and try again. I hope it's a unionsfs issue and not a VM issue.

Update: July 20, 2007

Is Suse Dead ?

billb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:37:57 -0600

Anyone interested in the Linux operating system has almost certainly heard about the Microsoft "License Agreement" with Novell to exempt Suse Linux from unstated patent infringements. If not, the high level executive summary runs like this.

Notes to self - some new links

billb — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:15:11 -0700

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/relationship/docs/drupal_set_theory.htm?rev=1.3