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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira |
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<spideybr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short |
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> summary or something. |
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> |
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> TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open |
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> source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned |
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> the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 -> X.org evolution, |
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> linux [..]. -> 2.4 -> 2.6 evolution, sound stack evolution (OSS, ALSA, |
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> JACK, PA, ESD, Arts, Phonon), multimedia history (ffmpeg, mplayer, |
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> mplayer2, gstreamer, xine, vlc). It could go all the way back to |
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> shell's, like sh, csh, BASH, zsh. |
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Not OSS related, but I really enjoyed reading Dennis Ritchie's article |
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on the history of the C programming language (which also gets into the |
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early UNIX days): |
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http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html |
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