A ComputerWorld article covers Google’s recent discussion and presentation of "Android", it’s mobile phone operating system.
Dave Burke, an engineering manager in Google Inc.’s mobile team, made some points that concern me.
Android will be different … because it is open source. [but] to have its own flavor of Java"

YUCK. I’ve been dealing with a [...]

In my post on installing multiple operating systems on a test machine, I mentioned (or meant to) that all of the Linux distributions installed on that machine point to the same “swap” partition. The common lore is to make the swap partition 2x the available memory. One of the reasons for this is that, [...]