Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
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There was a time when merely being a Linux user set you apart from the common herd. These days, with Linux so ubiquitous, you'll need to take additional steps to make yourself out as one of the elite.
Wayland isn't new, but many of us have been able to avoid it until recently. With many Linux distributions now pushing Wayland hard -- even for the Raspberry Pi -- it's getting harder to justify ignoring it. This article is for people who have been hoping until now that Wayland will go away, particularly X...
I don't want to post yet another anti-systemd rant, but I think the ubiquity of systemd could eventually create real problems for embedded Linux. I just wish I knew what to do about it.
Java decompilers usually make a good job of recovering program structure and the names of classes and methods; why do they make such a bad job of recovering variable names?
What can the software industry learn from the Log4J security debacle?
It isn't easy to run Linux well on ten-year-old laptops -- Linux distribution maintainers no longer see this as a worthwhile endeavour. In this article I compare Gentoo and MX Linux as potential solutions to this problem.
Lineage OS is based on the Android Open-Source Project, whose primary maintainer is Google. To what extent can it be considered Google-free?
Can you fit an NVMe solid-state drive into a computer that was made long before NVMe was invented? And should you?
This article is about how programming for CP/M, usng a 40-year-old C compiler, differs from modern C development, even for console applications.
For a Linux user in particular, which of these popular services is the most effective?
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