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This blog is to talk about computers. Share my opinions about operating systems, software, processor architectures, and other things.

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- April 14, 2018

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How to multi-boot Windows, Linux, and/or Unix

- March 03, 2018

Go to Administrative tools , and open Disk Management . Select the local drive. Shrink the NTFS partition (the larger the disk capacity, the more you should shrink), and don't format the unformatted space yet. Go to the distributor's website, and download the UNIX(OpenIndiana, GhostBSD, or TrueOS is recommended) or Linux(recommended distributions are Ubuntu, Linux Mint, MEPIS, Fedora, CentOS, and OpenSUSE) disk image. Burn it onto a CD or DVD, or alternatively install it onto a USB using Universal USB Installer or UNetBootin. There is also Win32 Disk Imager along with other alternative programs. Linux can read from and write to NTFS and FAT filesystems, but cannot boot from them. Linux s from a UNIX file system. UNIX filesystems have inodes. Ext3 has long been the standard filesystem for Linux, but ext4 is replacing it. There are also Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and XFS. You might like to have a separate root(Btrfs) and home(ext3, ext4 or XFS. Probably 1.5 times the size of th...

Posting schedule

- March 02, 2018

Every two weeks, starting March 3, 2018. Come back every other Saturday. If you don't see any new posts after two weeks, it may be because I'm gone or I'm busy. Less likely because I couldn't think about what to write.

Ideas for IT companies

- June 09, 2018

Ideas for Microsoft Include Vulkan in Windows. Clustered file system called MsCFS. Supporting POSIX and FUSE, NFS and SMB, and Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI. POSIX subsystem(s) similar to SFU, so other OS's besides Linux such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and/or OpenIndiana could be installed. Microsoft's own X server and client for Windows Subsystem for Linux, so graphical applications can be run. Sound as well. Free and open source base version of Windows. Still have proprietary commercial versions. Accept contributions to Windows from others. Sell the source code of Windows separately and at an additional price, and allow modifications and just not allow redistribution of the source. Desktop OS based on Google's Fuchsia, to either complement or supplement Windows 10. Linux distribution, perhaps called "Microsoft Enterprise Linux." Based on maybe Red Hat Enterprise Linux, at least for enterprise. Based on Debian/Ubuntu for desktop. Based on Arch for Internet of Things...