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How cool is Rob Landley??! |
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Compelling Speaker |
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Just recently I had the luck to stumble across a talk by Rob Landley. |
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Not only that he's a compelling speaker. He appears to be a very nice |
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person. He knows whole a lot about Unix and a lot of other topics. |
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Just to name a few: |
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- unix + unix history |
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- linux/embedded linux |
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- he has an informed opinion on open source liceses |
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- he was maintainer of busybox |
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- many more... |
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Here's his talk that first catched me: |
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Building the Simplest Possible Linux System |
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Minimalist (non-dogmatic) |
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A smile came to my face when I heard what he said about LinuxFromScratch: |
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How to create a very large, very complicated about |
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110 Megabytes System using conventional gnu packages. |
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[...] it's the base of most OS versions. It's nothing |
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remotely like the embedded world uses. I spent many |
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years making it so that a Megabyte of change in Busybox |
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could replace 100 Megabytes of gnu packages. |
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- Rob in his talk: Building the Simplest Possible Linux System, at 01:18:… |
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I also like the frugality in his html-Website: |
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landley.net |
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(would love to see this as a gopherhole) |
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Zero Clause BSD |
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In this other talk he compared his toybox with busybox. |
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Toybox is a smaller and cleaner replacement for busybox. |
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Toybox vs. Busybox |
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In this talk he also shared his definite opinion about licenses: |
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How nasty it can be that some BSD, MIT- and ISC-Licenses demand |
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you to carry them along. |
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He explained the 0BSD-License which he prefers: |
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Zero Clause BSD |
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I think he's right about this License. |
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I became a fan |
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In case you find toybox interesting, there is an irc channel |
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called #toybox on libera.chat. |
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I'm looking forward to explore more of his talks, code, writings |
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and his wisdom in general. |
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Cheers Rob, you rock! C|====| |
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`----' hjw |
