computoman

Most computers started with a command line interface. Then eventually migrated to a pictured interface Every computer now has some kind of desktop environment that allows to to interact with the system. The first gui (graphical user interface.) first came from Xerox.  Not going to show every desktop, but I will show the ones I think important. Then came the copy cats such as apple with the Mac and Microsoft with windows. You had to use their gui environment. Linux did not lock you into the desktop, but their were two major variations that sort of stems from the original environments. Gnome was a sort of gui that was like the apple interface and then there was kde which stemed from the mswindows interface. Then things soft of changed. Developers thought that a tiled interface would be easier I call them the Fisher-Price interfaces. Not fond of the tiled environment as you seem to lose some control over the desktop.  To each his own. There...

Update: Allegedly Apple allegedly now has a fix available. How to check for—and get rid of—a Mac Flashback infection http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/how-to-check-forand-get-rid-ofa-mac-flashback-infection.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss   Also see: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1517

To be honest, I do not spend that much time on Unix history. You could probably get a better idea of the history at:  http://www.robotwisdom.com/linux/timeline.html or www.groklaw.net Android was originally very loosely based on Linux at it's start. Now who knows. What is ironic is that Microsoft according to news reports allegedly earns almost a half billion dollars each year off of Android with their alleged software patents. Not so long ago A company called SCO claimed ownership of Unix via Novell and also claimed that Linux was directly a copy of unix. That assertion was clearly rebuked by the courts. SCO now allegedly in bankruptcy still wants to assert the same argument. They are still in Court with IBM over that assertion. www.groklaw.net has all the details. See also www.eff.org . Linux was developed by Linux Torvalds who still has a great say in how linux is developed. Since it is a free as in speech operating system, many derivatives have been developed. In fact, if you ...

My condolences go to the people and their families that work at Mapple (reference from a Simpsons episode), I mean Apple.  The media interviewed the WOZ aka Steve Wozniak and he was very classy about Mr. Steve Jobs passing.