Bill Gates and the importance of source code (2008)
An interesting article on Bill Gates and the importance of source code – in it, it refer to Bill Gates statement in a recent BBC interview that he and Paul Allen were stuck with the first computer they had access to, until they found the source code in a bin.In a bin.30 years later, Bill Gates and Microsoft continue to trash the freedoms of computer users, with Steve Ballmer describing the same goals and community ideals that allowed Gates to learn as a cancer, with Gates himself saying “th
Making virtual machines in Fedora (2008)
One thing I really like to do is to download older releases of free software, and run them in virtual machines, to see how things used to be, but also to see how far we’ve come.Fedora makes this really easy, with its virtual machine manager. I only have qemu installed, but I get the feeling that Xen and other machines are also usable with this. It makes getting a new virtual machine up and running as simple as possible.The only strange thing I’ve encountered so far, is SELinux complaining ab