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lproven

9,039 karma · joined December 30, 2013

Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.

# Work

Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven

Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com

# Personal

Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.

Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Quick info:

https://about.me/liamproven/

Personal blog:

http://lproven.dreamwidth.org/profile

Tech blog:

http://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/profile/

Socials:

https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven

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Xubuntu 24.04's minimal install: an official (nearly) Snap-free Ubuntu

theregister.com·4 pts·lproven·
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Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, EndeavourOS, and TrueNAS 24.04 all arrive at once

theregister.com·9 pts·lproven·
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Oral History of Brian L. Halla [pdf] (2013)

archive.computerhistory.org·30 pts·lproven·
10

Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX

timonoko.github.io·61 pts·lproven·
10

The 8-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80

theregister.com·14 pts·lproven·
3

Why does Windows use backslash as path separator? (2019)

os2museum.com·72 pts·lproven·
148

Miracle-WM tiling wm hits 0.2.0, and explaining X, Mir and Wayland

theregister.com·1 pts·lproven·
0

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins than ever

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs

geekdot.com·28 pts·lproven·
0

Qt Ubuntu remixes show that there's room for the flavours to innovate

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug

theregister.com·1 pts·lproven·
0

Novell – If at first you don't succeed

abortretry.fail·29 pts·lproven·
13

AlmaLinux 9.4 in beta, & CIQ has an alternative approach to compatible kernels

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

theregister.com·106 pts·lproven·
47

After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with root disk encryption and syscall limitations

theregister.com·4 pts·lproven·
0

GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanic architecture

theregister.com·3 pts·lproven·
3

OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System

btxx.org·7 pts·lproven·
1

PumpkinOS and RePalm: FOSS PalmOS-Compatibles in C21

theregister.com·1 pts·lproven·
0

LXC, Incus and Lxcfs hit v6, first LTS – and Canonical's original, LXD, updated

theregister.com·1 pts·lproven·
0

VSI prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program hard, with no more Alpha or Itanium editions

theregister.com·9 pts·lproven·
3

"One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix."

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

Locus Magazine is trying to crowdfund its continued existence

indiegogo.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

MacApp, probably the first ever GUI programming framework to be distributed

basalgangster.macgui.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

theregister.com·5 pts·lproven·
2

FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for CHERI software

theregister.com·5 pts·lproven·
0

HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working

theregister.com·58 pts·lproven·
47

6.9-RC1: improved workqueues means the beginning of the end of tasklets at last

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

The snake, the lizard and the Apple (satirical critique of Apple Inc.)

adriaan.biz·3 pts·lproven·
0

Flox 1: CLI package manager for multi-OS repeatable, declarative deployments

theregister.com·6 pts·lproven·
0
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