[Galaxy S Advance I9070 General] Paul L.:
When I was a little kid, I was scared a lot of those "TV boxes that interacted with you with some kind of brick with a cable on it".

(Argentina had a lot of money on the early 90s; we virtually had the same adquisitive power of the United States...without something backing the country money power; by the very start we were screwed, so, for schools and some places [technicals] they had some old computer to learn how to use them, and they thaught us to program and coding them at some degree; and then my dad bought me what we call in Argentina a "Family" console, basically, a Commodore 64 made just for games; and for use it you actually had to initialize them by commands)

Anyway OS X is basically a Unix-like Operating system (as Linux is, and GNU Hurd, was). The Unix-like projects aimed to be as powerful and versatile as Unix once was originally and to be free. So, various "forks" (because they had a piece of code or something that made them partly Unix) or "derivations" (because they had their majority of code from Unix released as open-source).

Then the GNU project started to make a full free reimplementation and binary compatible (this meant that programs from unix could run directly on this implementation) of the Unix. GNU is a joke/recursive acronymn, it means "GNU is Not Unix". So, by the time the GNU "Operating system" was ready, the only part missing was the GNU Hurd kernel, it was, pretty much as the OS X is, a microkernel. The problem was that GNU Hurd was having a lot of "delays" issues in many ways, also, the manufacturers weren't "kind" enough to collaborate with the GNU guys for a non-comercial and non-profit operating system.

And then the "Linux" (it was originally named Freax) kernel from Linus Torvalds (and...nope, the kernel wasn't purposedly named after him, the "genius" manager on the FTP server put the source code in a folder called "Linux", meaning "the Linus Unix stuff" more or less) started to grow up because it was very easy to use, but very limited on hardware compatibility, Linus believed that his kernel would never run on other hardware other than his Intel 80386 (and that is why the 386 hardware was still suported until recently, it was the original platform of the Linux kernel). So for it to be even built, it was running on a learning operating system called "Minix" that was free to use for students, but it was not for comercially distribution, therefore, incompatible with the GPL licensee Linus wanted to use later on. Minix was pretty much the reason why the Linus version came in place. Linus believed that the "Minix" operating system had major flaws, like the GNU Hurd, it was a microkernel, the very internal problem was that "there was a lot of delays within the internal services and stuff", so with the hardware of that era, Minix was severly limited on it's speed. Also there were a lot of limitations on the filesystem and a lot of stuff you could imagine.

And, Linus started the core of the majority of web servers and even smartphones today, as a "when I have free time" project on his own.

Later on the exterior part of the GNU operating system was adapted to run on top of Linux (that is why Linux on PCs is most of the times called as GNU/Linux, the GNU stuff running on top of the Linux kernel), and then, you had the replacement for the long gone GNU Hurd (which it's still being developed, but...it's going to die as it receives very little support now).

And I haven't been too involved with development, with Java or neither C/C++, the problem is the more you become involved, you want or you are obligated to learn stuff to keep up the pace. At some point you start to learn things and since you already learned a lot of stuff just by reading random, your "brain" starts to unify that "not so useful" stuff onto something that you can elaborate good ideas from, but you can't always speculate, so reading becomes your best friend for the veracity of the stuff you are talking about. Then you just have to find something useful to use the random texts you learned. And experimenting can be fun if something cool comes from it.

Not only with the OS X stuff, Android is actually very fun, because when you see your work actually "booting up" and seeing the wonderful stuff rolling on the logcat and the screen of your phone you become (or atleast I am) very proud of what you have done without knowing too much. Then if you start to see that "people" appreciate your efforts for taking your free time to work on something and then share it with them...It's just great.

I also had a MSM 7227 Phone, a Galaxy mini, it's not too fun when the phone is clocked 600 MHz (yours was clocked at 800 MHz). Three-boot is not the correct "term". If dual-boot exists...then...triple-boot? should be the correct one.

And Linux is easy to setup. You have the "choice" like here on Android. CM, AOKP, PAC, ParanoidAndroid, all of them are basically "flavours" to choose from. You can chose the easy or common ones like Ubuntu and Debian (the easy is Ubuntu, the common is Debian, since Ubuntu is a fork, based on Debian, a really stable OS), then you go to the "medium" ones like Red Hat Linux, Fedora, blah. And then you go to the hard ones like Arch Linux, Slackware, or even LFS (Linux from Scratch, or basically, building your own version from the very base). So, they are pretty much..."pre-configured" versions of Linux, and all of them come with the GNU tools.

And Android is a "deviation" from this scheme, it's a Operating system, which does not include GNU tools, but it runs on top of the Linux kernel. That is why is IT related.

P.S. I really don't mind to write really long texts, for me is just explaining some stuff in detail.

P.P.S. The profile pic was the "intro" of a local program called "Periodismo para Todos" (Periodism for everyone).

Local politics incoming

The title is for a joke made from a very used phase from our government. "for everyone"; but it means more like..."The truth that you don't tell us is actually for everyone"; and it describes the corruption in a very detailed way from our government, and it's so ****ing logical that pretty much "everyone" [jokes everywhere] can understand it. It's in it's own way a "satira" of the stuff happening on the public figures of the government and politicians, some of those polticians actually seem it...funny, so they come and talk stuff, explain what or why they are doing that, and blah; and it's conducted by Jorge Lanata, a employee from the Channel 13 of Buenos Aires, and Channel 13 is owned the the media group "Clarin", also owner of the very newspaper that it's opposing the governent.

(And for those Argentinians, I know that Clarin is also kind of corrupt, but come on, the government ****ed with them, and they are now releasing the dirty secrets from them. Latana does not care a **** from Clarin, for him it's personal, remember Pagina 13? owned by the government now, and the very company he founded is now in the hands of the ones he hates so much. He also said the same stuff from Menem, I think he said something about De la Rua, and now from both Nestor and CFK he is saying stuff)