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Archive for September, 2004

Partners for an year

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Today marks the 365th day of my partnership with him. He is cool, very faithful and always there for me. It all started an year back when I entered a store in Begumpet to have a look at one of his friends whom I always wanted to try. Fortunately I developed a […]

Disclaimers to bounties

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

The software industry is unique when it comes to warranties - all other industries give a warranty of their product being problem free while the software industry gives a disclaimer. Every software engineer agrees to the fact that no software is bug free but the software can definitely be close to being bug free.
The […]

A myth called linux operating system

Friday, September 24th, 2004

For me linux operating system is a myth, its a story thats just been accepted! A year back when i approached Richard Stallman for an autograph, he said "If you want my autograph, you will have to make a promise, you should never refer to GNU/Linux Operating System by the name Linux".  May be he […]

Why another operating system?

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Why would anyone want to write a new operating system? Am not sure of why others want to write, but following are the reasons that interest me.

I love systems programming
Existing projects are already too mature for me to contribute anything. The most appealing is the linux kernel, but there is hardly anything left for me […]

Salesmen of proprietary software

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

A great visionary and a young hacker, it took these two to start what we now know as the gnu and the linux kernel. It took ten years after the packages paired up for gnu/linux to be well known in India. Even this day, there are many computer programmers and engineers who have […]