KENNETH PORIO | the blog

Hi there, friends! While I'm doing my study with Flash for my Practicum, I took a break and scoured through the Web to find some interesting things. And with that something from my memory bank flashed: my first Windows experience . Before Linux came out in the open, I've been acquainted with computers since I was just a little toddler. I can really remember how my Papa told me how to type MS-DOS commands like cd , dir , rd , date , and  many others. I was interested on how that command line can do many wonderful things: type text, play games, add numbers, everything . But my knowledge ever increased more when I experienced a GUI-based operating system... Windows. And that version: Windows 3.1 Windows 3.1 came to us when my dad had some computers from his previous work being fixed. He had those stack of Win 3.1 installation floppy disks that fill an entire floppy case (those were those 5-1/2" disks then!). What I remember about 3.1 was the very simplistic UI. ...

Sinabe ko na nga ba... Windows is as evil as Mac! Nang sumulpot si Linux in the computing world, with its many distributions or flavors, biglang naiba ang pananaw ng maraming mamamayan sa paggamit sa personal computer sa kanilang sari-saring pamumuhay. Sumulpot ang maraming Free and Open-Source Software na naging pang-kiliti ng masa sa kasalukuyan katulad ng Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Audacity, at iba pa . At habang nangyari ang mga ito, Windows was having thoughts to partner up with Mac due to the increasing competition against the FOSS movement. So they did. Kahit pangit pa rin tingnan ang Windows 7 at kahit nakaklula ang mga graphics ng Mac OS X 10.7 Snow Leopard, they are still closed-source, proprietary software!  Linux, along with its FOSS peers, is persecuted by the increasing aggressiveness of proprietary software providers - bilking users of their freedoms and their money. While these worldviews of these major operating systems differ, there i...