About systhread
This site is about operating systems and hobbyist programming. The site is designed more for the casual Open Source user, administrator and/or programmer. This site's written material hinges on programming and administration. That is all - nothing else. Even the code available here pretty much reflects code for administration (which makes perfect sense).
About the Owner
I have been working with technology (electronics and programming) since 1988 as a hobbyist and student. Computing became a career in 1990. I worked on UNISYS and Sperry mainframes. Since 1995 I have worked on Unix or Unixlike systems. I have worked on many platforms (although I find these dwindling now) such as UNISYS, Hughes, DEC, HP, Sun, AMD, ARM and of course Intel. I have used a variety of programming languages such as (but not limited to) assembler, Fortran, C, C++, Perl and a variety of shells. The three I use almost daily are shell, perl and c/c++ (in that order of use and skill). Operating systems (at least insofar as expertise) would be anything Unix or remotely similar. Beyond the workplace I am and/or have been heavily involved in a small number of projects such as Linux, NetBSD, Nmap, Dnet and my own collection of software. Details about coding and projects can be found in the coding section of the site. Lastly I have worked on a number of books (yes the dead tree kind) and magazines over the years. More information about books and zines I have written for can be found in the site bibliography.
The rest of this document discusses where this site came from. For other information, visit the following links:
- Policies here at systhread.
- An incomplete list of credits.
- There are button logos of the site available for the really bored.
A Brief History
In 1998 the author became interested in writing online content. It started
with a meager site called i2t which meant internet
information technologies
. The author decided to narrow the content of
i2t based on a recommendation by a good friend. The author bought a domain called
diverge.org. The diverge site hosted subsites
: a
search engine, a personal site, and a site called The OutRider
Computing Journal. OutRider was similar to this site. The main
difference between this site and OutRider is the maturity of
technical writing. In 2004 the author wanted to get back into writing
online again and saw that Dave Whitinger (a great inspiration)
had started a newswire over at LXer.
The name came from a somewhat abstracted name such as Kernel Thread ... systhread was
available.
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