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133/p> 134<p>This site is provided to inspire you to seek truth, depth, fun, and personal mastery in IT or any other field of your choosing.</p> 135<h3 id="terminology">Terminology</h3> 136<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution">BSD</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU">GNU</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel">Linux</a> are terms of increasingly narrow specificity or scope:</p> 137<ul> 138<li> 139<p>Unix refers to all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like">Unix-like</a> systems (as described in more detail in the <a href="/unix-history/">History of Unix, BSD, GNU, and Linux</a>) or to Unix concepts (as described in <a href="/unix-philosophy-explained/">The Unix Philosophy - Explained and Extended</a>)</p> 140</li> 141<li> 142<p>GNU refers to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project">GNU project</a> or to the free (<em>liberated</em>) implementation of Unix and Unix programs</p> 143</li> 144<li> 145<p>Linux refers to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel">Unix-like kernel called Linux</a> or informally to all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">GNU/Linux</a> distributions</p> 146</li> 147<li> 148<p>GNU/Linux more precisely refers to Linux distributions, i.e. those which combine the GNU userland with the Linux kernel</p> 149</li> 150<li> 151<p>BSD refers to operating systems derived from the traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution">BSD Unix</a></p> 152</li> 153</ul> 154<p>Articles on this site use the terms with the broadest applicability in a given context. For example, if a concept originates in Unix, such as the command line, it will be called the “Unix command line” rather than the “Linux command line”, unless the context is specific to Linux.</p> 155<h3 id="links">Links</h3> 156<p>This site is located at <a href="/">https://crystallabs.io/</a>.</p> 157<p>RSS feed is available at <a href="/index.xml">https://crystallabs.io/index.xml</a>.</p> 158<p>All HTML links external to this site are marked with a “fa-external”<a href="https://"></a> icon, such as <a href="https://www.eff.org/">
158https://www.eff.org/</a>.</p> 159<p>Articles may contain links to other resources. For convenience, all links appearing in an article are listed again at the bottom in a single place, in order of appearance.</p> 160<h2 id="brief-history">Brief History</h2> 161<p>I started my computer-related journey when I was 6, playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64">Commodore 64</a> games like <a href="https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Boulder_Dash">Boulder Dash</a>, <a href="https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commando">Commando</a> and <a href="https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Pitstop">Pitstop</a>.</p> 162<p>After many games on the Commodore 64, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST">Atari 1040 STe</a>, PC 386, and PC 486, in 1992 I started programming in Visual Basic, followed over the years by C, Perl, Java, Ruby, Crystal, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, toolkits <a href="https://qt.io">Qt</a> and <a href="https://clifford.at/stfl">STFL</a>, toy languages Logo and Oberon, and a number of other implied languages and DSLs like shell, make, nroff, and regexes.</p> 163<p>After getting a 14.4kbps modem in ~1995 and experiencing the magic of Unix via a dial-up connection, I was decided on it. I started using GNU/Linux a significant percentage of time in 1998 and exclusively as the only OS for desktops and servers in 2001, standardizing on Debian GNU and derivative distributions, and focusing on programming and systems administration.</p> 164<p>Some of my earliest documented work includes translating the famous John Kirch’s 1998 paper “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010602162623/http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/">Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX</a>” to another language, and 1999 co-authoring a <a href="/lt1/">custom GNU/Linux distribution called lt1</a> that fit in 1.44MB of space (the size of a diskette) for diskless PC terminals.</p> 165<p>To date I have accumulated 25+ years of professional experience using, programming, documenting, and managing Unix and Unix-like systems on and off the Internet. 166I have worked on a number of software projects holding volunteering, development, consulting, architecting, and/or management roles.</p> 167 168 </div> 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177<div> 178 <h2>Automatic Links</h2> 179 The following links appear in the article: 180 181 <p> 182 183 184 185 186 1. History of Unix, BSD, GNU, and Linux - <a href="/unix-history/">/unix-history/</a><br> 187 188 189 190 191 2. The Unix Philosophy - Explained and Extended - <a href="/unix-philosophy-explained/">/unix-philosophy-explained/</a><br> 192 193 194 195 196 3. STFL - <a href="https://clifford.at/stfl">https://clifford.at/stfl</a><br> 197 198 199 200 201 4. BSD Unix - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution</a><br> 202 203 204 205 206 5. GNU - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU</a><br> 207 208 209 210 211 6. GNU Project - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project</a><br> 212 213 214 215 216 7. GNU/Linux - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux</a><br> 217 218 219 220 221 8. Unix-Like Kernel Called Linux - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel</a><br> 222 223 224 225 226 9. Unix - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix</a><br> 227 228 229 230 231 10. Unix-Like - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like</a><br> 232 233 234 235 236 11. 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