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lproven

9,040 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.

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https://about.me/liamproven/

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http://lproven.dreamwidth.org/profile

Tech blog:

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

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ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century

theregister.com·1 pts·lproven·
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With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language

theregister.com·7 pts·lproven·
1

Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu

theregister.com·4 pts·lproven·
0

WPMacApp: Ready-Rolled VM with WordPerfect for Classic macOS, for x86/M1 OS X

columbia.edu·2 pts·lproven·
1

LibreOffice 7.6, what comes next, and what the end of the 7.x releases means

theregister.com·8 pts·lproven·
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Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter

theregister.com·4 pts·lproven·
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Learn how to email like a pro

theregister.com·3 pts·lproven·
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Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here

theregister.com·28 pts·lproven·
18

MacroSystem DraCo: a 3rd party Amiga compatible, without the Amiga chipset

bigbookofamigahardware.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

The IPv6 mess (2002)

cr.yp.to·93 pts·lproven·
131

Microsoft's Gordon Letwin on “What's happening to OS/2” (1995)

groups.google.com·2 pts·lproven·
0

The Compose key: How to type foreign languages without looking stuff up

theregister.com·4 pts·lproven·
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OK, so what *is* this Wayland thing, anyway?

mir-server.io·3 pts·lproven·
0

Hitachi bundled BeOS in 1999, but Microsoft stopped it installing a bootloader

birdhouse.org·2 pts·lproven·
1

Zinc: Ubuntu LTS, with XFCE, and both Snap and Flatpak replaced with deb-get

theregister.com·7 pts·lproven·
0

Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)

web.archive.org·143 pts·lproven·
184

An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]

cseweb.ucsd.edu·192 pts·lproven·
121

Forester project delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora

theregister.com·2 pts·lproven·
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Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

ajk.me·4 pts·lproven·
0

Converter to plug an IBM 5250-compatible terminal to a Linux PC via USB

github.com·4 pts·lproven·
1

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

theregister.com·5 pts·lproven·
0

GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is modern NeXT/OpenStep-like Linux desktop environment

onflapp.github.io·2 pts·lproven·
1

The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)

geoffchappell.com·223 pts·lproven·
139

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

v68k.org·34 pts·lproven·
4

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too

theregister.com·96 pts·lproven·
28

Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)

w3.org·110 pts·lproven·
92

RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I

thechipletter.substack.com·101 pts·lproven·
15

The GNU project nearly adopted the BSD kernel in 1991, before Linux was created

groklaw.net·5 pts·lproven·
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Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

theregister.com·124 pts·lproven·
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OS/380: a family of free 31-bit mainframe OSes incl. MVS/380, VM/380 and VSE/38

mvs380.sourceforge.net·9 pts·lproven·
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