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Free software licence – Permissive versus Copyleft opinions

Many users and developers of BSD-based operating systems have a different position on licensing. The main difference is the belief that the copyleft licences, particularly the GNU General Public License (GPL), are undesirably complicated and/or restrictive. The GPL requires any derivative work that is released to be released according to the GPL while the BSD [...]

PA-RISC – History

In the late 1980s HP was building four series of computers, all based on CISC CPUs. One line was the IBM PC compatible Intel i286 based Vectra Series started 1986. All others were non-Intel systems. One of them was the HP Series 300 of Motorola 68000-based workstations, another Series 200 line of technical workstations based [...]

Concurrent Versions System – Features

CVS uses a client–server architecture: a server stores the current version(s) of a project and its history, and clients connect to the server in order to “check out” a complete copy of the project, work on this copy and then later “check in” their changes. Typically, the client and server connect over a LAN or [...]

Bill Joy – Early career

After growing up in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy’s PhD advisor was Bob Fabry. As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry’s Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support [...]

University of Calgary – Notable alumni

*M. Elizabeth Cannon (1984, 1991), B.Sc. and Ph.D. Former Dean and first female president of the U of C. *Theo de Raadt (1992), B.Sc. Founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, degree in Computer Science. *Mitchell C. Gallivan (1989), Master of Kinesiology M.K. Sports announcer for the Canadian Football League. *James Gosling (1977), [...]

PBKDF2 – Systems that use PBKDF2

*Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) used to secure Wi-Fi wireless networks *Microsoft Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) *OpenDocument encryption used in OpenOffice.org *[http://www.zetetic.net/software/sqlcipher SQLCipher], an encrypted variant of SQLite *WinZip’s AES Encryption scheme. *JBoss Seam Framework JpaIdentityStore.generatePasswordHash (as of 2.1.2) *Grub 2, for password hashing. Disk encryption software *FileVault (Mac OS X) from Apple [...]

AMD Lance Am7990 – Uses

* Amiga 2065 the first Ethernet controller for Amiga computer family. Uses the Zorro-II bus interface and equipped with the NMOS Am7990 chip. * MicroVAX Q-Bus Ethernet controllers (like the DELQA). * DECstation 2100/3100 MIPS architecture motherboard Ethernet. * DEC 3000 AXP 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture motherboard. * Sun Microsystems Sun Hydra 3/80, SPARCstation 1, [...]

Eläkeläiset – Introduction

Eläkeläiset (Finnish for “pensioners”) are a Finnish humppa band founded in 1993. They specialise in humppa and jenkka music and have been successful in Germany, Finland and elsewhere. Current members of the band are Onni Waris (keyboard, vocals), Petteri Halonen (keyboard, guitar, vocals), Lassi Kinnunen (accordion, vocals), Martti Waris (bass, vocals) and Kristian Voutilainen (drums, [...]

OpenVPN – Introduction

OpenVPN allows peers to authenticate each other using a pre-shared secret key, certificates, or username/password. When used in a multiclient-server configuration, it allows the server to release an authentication certificate for every client, using signature and Certificate authority. It uses the OpenSSL encryption library extensively, as well as the SSLv3/TLSv1 protocol, and contains many security [...]

XORP – Introduction

XORP, or eXtensible Open Router Platform, is an open source Internet Protocol routing software suite. It is designed from principles of software modularity and extensibility and aims at exhibiting stability and providing feature requirements for production use while also supporting networking research. The development project was founded by Mark Handley in 2000. Receiving funding from [...]

Bluetooth – Computer requirements

A personal computer that does not have embedded Bluetooth can be used with a Bluetooth adapter or “dongle” that will enable the PC to communicate with other Bluetooth devices (such as mobile phones, mice and keyboards). While some desktop computers and most recent laptops come with a built-in Bluetooth radio, others will require an external [...]

DragonFly BSD – Development and distribution

DragonFly forked from FreeBSD 4.8 and imports features and bug fixes from FreeBSD 4 and 5 where appropriate, such as ACPI and a new ATA driver framework from FreeBSD 4. As the number of DragonFly developers is currently small, with most of them focused on implementing basic functionality, device drivers are being kept mostly in [...]

E/OS – History

The project was started in 1995 with the goal of a free DOS. Until 1998 it was based exclusively on FreeDOS, and since then has been based on SEAL GUI. In 2000 the E/OS project switched to a larger focus, to create a system capable of running programs written for multiple platforms, including BeOS, Microsoft [...]









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