Tuesday, May 10, 2016

It only took 11 years...

BitKeeper v bk-7.2ce is now open source - that's the community edition of BitKeeper source code product. This is a significant move; the technology's pretty awesome and it's great it's finally being open sourced.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BitKeeper-Open-Source indicates the software has been released under the apache 2.0 license. Not only does BitKeeper live... TCL/tk lives, too!  Who knew? :-)

https://www.bitkeeper.org/

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Quora helped me help out a quarter million new Linux users

How can I not humblebrag a little about this?

On Quora.com my stats page shows I've topped 2m views on the various answers I've written to questions.    2 million reads.  That's pretty cool.

One answer has nearly a quarter of a million views on it alone:  https://www.quora.com/I-am-shifting-from-Windows-to-Linux-What-are-some-explanations-for-Linux-as-I-am-new-to-it/answer/Paul-Reiber

It's so very awesome that I can help out that many people with figuring out Linux and UNIX, all at once.

Quora really has it going on, in terms of platform solutions.  Nice work!  Thank you, Quora.