Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
Latest Posts
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...
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?
What's the real reason that cellphone manufacturers stopped fitting this simple, robust connector?
Although Lineage OS installation is pretty well-documented, there are a few things that might benefit from some more detailed explanation.
The Vim text editor is almost ubiquitous on Linux systems, and for good reasons. This is the first article in a series which seeks to uncover some handy features of Vim, that don't seem to be widely known.
The elegant simplicity and serviceability of this compact power ampliifer has given it an enthusiastic following for nearly forty years.
The REX was the world's first, and last, credit-card-sized personal computing device. Why did it fail?
Will my Gentoo journey be coming to an end after the first month?