In the process of preparing my talk for KCA, I re-read the classic paper: The UNIX Time-Sharing System by Ritchie & Thompson. This paper was revised several times between 1973 and 1978, and the authors' observations are well worth remembering:

Perhaps paradoxically, the success of the Unix system is largely due to the fact that it was not designed ( Read more... )

I've had a talk accepted at the upcoming Kernel Conference Australia (KCA), which will be held in Brisbane in July.

The agenda has just been published, and it certainly looks to be an interesting few days, with a keynote from Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, as well as talks by Sherry Moore, Henning Brauer, and Stewart Smith ( Read more... )

I just noticed that there's a new conference for open source kernel developers and researchers, Kernel Conference Australia (KCA). It'll be held at UQ in Brisbane in July, and the CfP closes on May 1st.

Linux currently looks a little under-represented, so let's try and fix that :-)