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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:17:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Njhm1HaYKe8d2q9AKQupF2UWpCmTrCbvr1s1ZS0Wg3yg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGo3Weobu+-fJPBmaMa7OFh6ZFMuSh4CNHs-hTvZhoxU-p+Efw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira
<spideybr@gmail.com> wrote:
> mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short
> summary or something.
>
> TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open
> source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned
> the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 -> X.org evolution,
> linux [..]. -> 2.4 -> 2.6 evolution, sound stack evolution (OSS, ALSA,
> JACK, PA, ESD, Arts, Phonon), multimedia history (ffmpeg, mplayer,
> mplayer2, gstreamer, xine, vlc). It could go all the way back to
> shell's, like sh, csh, BASH, zsh.

Not OSS related, but I really enjoyed reading Dennis Ritchie's article
on the history of the C programming language (which also gets into the
early UNIX days):
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 17:36 [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2 james
2012-02-14 17:53 ` Florian Philipp
2012-02-14 18:08   ` LK
2012-02-14 18:24     ` mike
2012-02-14 18:40       ` LK
2012-02-14 18:46         ` Alecks Gates
2012-02-14 18:52         ` mike
2012-02-14 19:04           ` Michael Mol
2012-02-14 20:35             ` mike
2012-02-14 20:45               ` Michael Mol
2012-02-14 23:47           ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-14 23:53             ` mike
2012-02-14 19:29         ` Andrea Conti
2012-02-14 19:53           ` [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2 LK
2012-02-14 19:59             ` Michael Cook
2012-02-14 20:44               ` mike
2012-02-14 20:58                 ` LK
2012-02-14 21:19                   ` Michael Mol
2012-02-14 20:30             ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-14 20:46             ` mike
2012-02-14 20:42           ` [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2 mike
2012-02-14 20:57             ` LK
2012-02-14 21:44               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-14 23:19               ` mike
2012-02-15 12:19                 ` Tanstaafl
2012-02-15 12:28                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-15 12:33                   ` Michael Mol
2012-02-15 14:37                   ` mike
2012-02-15 14:47                     ` Tanstaafl
2012-02-15 15:02                       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-14 21:46           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-15 15:57             ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-02-15 16:11               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-15 16:28                 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012-02-15 17:17                   ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-02-15 17:33                 ` Doug Hunley
2012-02-15 17:40                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-15  8:10           ` [gentoo-user] " ny6p01
2012-02-14 20:57   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-02-14 18:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Stefano Crocco

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