ok, so my WIP Unix History article (subsidiary of https://michal.sapka.me/unix-history/) is now telling the story up to System V. I'm waiting for /external parties/ to provide the cherry on top, and I hope to publish chapter III late next week.
I think there will be two chapters more - BSD and Other Modern Unixes.
This also means I will not publish anything else in the near future. Attack on Titan and Johnny Mnemonic are drafts awaiting their time ;)
Wrote a few more chapters, and boom. It's 23:30. The /Forks and Wars/ chapter of my Unix History is going smoothly. However there is so much info that would make the text incomprehensable, I think I'll add "bonus" subpages, like timeline.
Which Unix forks would you consider as the most important/noteable except of BSD, Solaris and Xenix? Have you used others maybe?
As much as I don’t fully understand the appeal of #hamradio , looking at folks setups gives me a huge grim. Radios upon radios with random screens. What for? Who knows. But it looks amazing!
One cannot understand it, since the reasons people are into ham radio are quite diverse. Examples:
Some people collect stones, or beer etiquettes. And some ham radio enthusiasts collect connections to rare remote places.
Some build their own equipment from scratch (yep, we can do that, since after learning and doing the government test we are supposed to know what to do to not create interference with other radio services).
Some like the thrill of using transceivers with only 40 components using Morse.
And some the thrill of using top-notch software defined radios running in software, or on an FPGA.
And so one. It's basically an excuse to play with technical devices. And for sure, it's near the top of Maslow's pyramid of needs.
@mms@mwl Heck, now we're getting more and more books from Michael which I never dared to read. I wonder what more damage that will do to my life. After having read Ed Mastery already, this Ed throws itself at my feet and talks me into a guilty conscience everytime I want to make a simple config change in a remote shell. 😂