Archive for the 'Richard Stallman' Category

Monday, June 11th, 2007

GNU/Linux

Richard Stallman has continuously disputed the use of “Linux” to describe what is commonly known as the “Linux Operating System”. Some of his reasons are sound, but there are also flaws. Stallman claims that since the Linux kernel alone does nothing by itself, and since most of the other important pieces that provide actual functionality […]

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Revolution OS is a documentary from 2001 that “tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.” It is available and downloadable from google video.
Revolution OS basically documents the history of free software, open source and Linux. Featured in the […]