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Activity for peterh‭

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Comment Post #293881 Btw, since Ballmer's fall, Microsoft is not so insulting in its words, and it prefers embrace-extend-extinguish to the more direct confronation, but its goals are clearly the same. Behind the bars, the little Ballmers are still there, and they are very happy to compare us to viruses, thieves and now ...
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about 3 hours ago
Comment Post #293767 "Application" is not a unix term. We use it for compatibility with the windows or user world. What Linux has, that are *processes*. Or, maybe, *process groups*. Application is a term which is used by the GUI for *processes* or *process groups* having some role in the managed resources (they open wind...
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about 8 hours ago
Comment Post #293881 Note that github is owned by the Microsoft, and Microsofts company agenda - and also elemental business interest - to sell vendor locked, high-level tools to their users. That users, with a set of well-defined tools, directly operate in *their* filesystem hierarchy, that is not what they want. So I f...
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about 9 hours ago