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The truth about operating systems: let's talk about Windows

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:00:00 +0200

With years of history behind it, when someone talks about operating systems, the first thing that comes to mind is Windows. Loved and criticised in equal measure, there’s no denying it has long been the most widely used desktop operating system.

The truth about operating systems: Linux for users

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200

There are plenty of Windows, Linux and MacOSX fanatics. I’ve spent years using all of them, and each has its good points and its bad ones. For those who haven’t tried them but are curious, here are a few opinions. In this post we’ll talk about Linux, philosophies aside, from a user’s point of view.

The truth about operating systems: MacOSX

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200

After quite a few years as a MacOSX user, and having grown disillusioned over the last year, I have a pretty well-formed opinion of the joys and headaches a MacOSX machine can bring.

Apple’s operating systems have always been known for good performance and for being optimised for graphics and video work. One of their big leaps forward, and a bet on the future, was going with a UNIX kernel while keeping a superb graphics layer and an easy-to-use interface. That’s how the MacOSX series was born.

The price of free software for a programmer

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200

We often equate (even within the IT world) Free Software with FREE OF CHARGE. I hear plenty of clients tell me “Use free software, it costs nothing, so it’ll be cheaper.”

The usual way to argue this always starts with Free as in freedom being different from free of charge, a confusion that comes from a poor translation of the word FREE in Free Software, the original English term. But even so, when we think of Free Software, we think of free of charge.