COMPUTER STUFF

DEBIAN, REDHAT, FEDORA, SUSE or WHAT?

  • A discussion among U of T Astronomy people about the relative merits of alternatives to RedHat Enterprise, etc.
  • A discussion on the LinuxAstro Mail List on these same matters.

    LINKS TO INTERESTING DISCUSSION ON OPEN-SOURCE, ETC.

  • OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint by Eric Raymond and Rob Landley. This extensive paper discusses the SCO versus Linux legal brouhaha.

  • Linux Astronomy HOWTO (Elwood Downey and John Huggins)
  • DS9 Image Viewer On-Line Documentation.
  • My reply to the Discussion Paper of The Provost's Task Force on Academic Computing and New Media.
  • GNU Project web server
  • Killing Off Linux: It's All Academic Keeping UNIX and Linux alive in the academic server space.
  • First Monday is an excellent on-line refereed journal dealing with Internet and computer issues. Several profoundly important and influential papers have appeared there in the last year or so.
  • My article on in the CAUT Bulletin, Dec. 1998
  • My article in the U of T Bulletin, 28 Feb. 1999
  • RASC Talk 13 May 1999
  • Talk to ASP July 1999

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