In a white paper discussing software that runs on thin servers, the Gartner Group benchmarks FreeBSD against Linux. In raw Web serving performance, FreeBSD wins by a large margin.

jwz bids farewell to Netscape and Mozilla.

Lots of people are linking to the Neal Stephenson essay on operating systems, but the FAQ on cryptography and his new novel that he just posted is pretty cool too.

The death of a web log or April Fool’s prank?

Wanna-be geeks will appreciate this introduction to Linux/Unix programming.

Readers would do well to note the date when before clicking on this link.