My Custom Debian.

This morning I created my custom Debain distribution with 'simple-cdd' I still need to make my own package list. Follow these directions.

SELinux

After I installed Debian 9 I installed SELinux here is the Debian wiki on how to. Also here are the GUI tools. I first heard about SELinux about 10 years ago. Also here is article on anti-viris vs SELinux. And a little history Here is Sofos for Linux. And for Windows and Mac. Malwarebytes is good too for Mac and Windows.

Setting up my apt repository and build environment on Debian

I'm configuring my build environment on my new HP Debian machine here available on the wiki I also am outputing my installed packages on Debian using dpkg. And will write a script. I want to get working on KX Studio and some on my projects on github if I can find the extra time. And create my own PPA.

Desktop Environments

I'm trying the Gnome 3 desktop environment for Debian 8 and it really isn't that bad, reminds me of Windows 8/8.1. I'm using MATE in FreeBSD which is a for of Gnome 2. And starting with Vista Windows uses DWM I think or that might be like Xorg. They use Aero. Windows also uses the Windows bootloader and Linux GRUB. I really would like to be able to install the Windows desktop environment just like another environment like KDE or Gnome. I've forked the Budgie Desktop environment and made my own called Blueberry for Linux and Gnome Shell. I've also forked the Lumina desktop for BSD which is a low level C++ desktop environment. Fairly new.

Upgrade for Wheezy to Jessie

Yesterday I upgraded to Debian 8 "Jessie" which is now on the stable branch from "Wheezy" and my base image was "Squeeze". I also began reading about the systemd process and how it replaced "init". Also here is a source list generator from Switzerland.

Microsoft Design Principles and Scenarios Star 2011

In 2011 I completed a course and in Microsoft's eyes became a design principles and scenarios star. More on this as I remember it, it was the design toolbox and I still have all of the files. And here was my avatar.

Building Singularity

In 02010 I downloaded and read about a Microsoft research OS called Singularity. Now I'm going to tell you how to build it. First you can download it from Codeplex here. Next unzip the RDK and right click on the "configure.cmd" and run as administrator, accept the defaults and press enter. This should place a Singularity shortcut on your desktop. Next open the the shortcut placed on your desktop and type "msb Distro\World.proj" allow about 25-30 min depending on your machine to build. After it is built you should be able to run it in a VM. I might go into more detail later. If you really want to have fun read up on MSBuild and and how to add you own CLI projects to the Applications folder. The Singularity build requires .NET 3.5.You also might need to add "C:\Windows System32;" to your PATH environment variables. You also can find many of the build tools like boogie and the CLR Profiler on Codeplex. You might want to sandbox your modifications so if Microsoft releases another Singularity variant in the future it will be compatible. Again read up on MSBuild. You can turn on your virus protection after the build. Because many viruses are written in assembly.

 

Future of Concurrency and Parallelism

Here is a Joe Duffy interview. I first read Concurrent Programming on Windows in 2013. Here are the CHESS Tools There is also Midori which I haven't heard that much about lately but there is a C# OS called Cosmos and MOSA. I really haven't had much time to work with CHESS. Other than to write my own MSBuild wrapper.

COM

I first learned about Microsoft's Component Object Model in 1999. I read and learned the model through MSDN libraries and magazines. I think my first was a MSJ. I have all of my DVD archives. About three or four years ago I bought Don Box's "Essential COM".I partly read this book in an old MSDN library. And used Microsoft's M Language.

How to luanch the old style Control Panel in Windows 10.

To launch the old style Control Panel in Windows 10. You could go into the system files and find "control.exe" and pin it to the start menu. One good improvement in Windows 10 was the improvement to the environment variable settings. You can also launch the old -sytle control panel following this article.