This was originally a Usenet response from Open Source evangelist Eric S. Raymond to some common hacker newbie questions and inspired the new title of this blog.
Speak, O Guru: How can I become a Unix Wizard?
O, Nobly Born: know that the Way to Wizardhood is long, and winding, and Fraught with Risks. Thou must [...]

Net Applications’s service NetMarketShare tracks browser and operating system market share for several of the most popular websites. The statistics are generated by analyzing data obtained from clients accessing the websites and finding patterns in the data that reveal the client OS. The current data is available here.
The Linux market share of 1.02% looks rather [...]

For quite a while I was somewhat puzzled by Linus Torvalds’ seemingly lack of interest for user space, free software and the social and economical opportunities for his life’s work; the Linux kernel. However, eventually I believe I came to an understanding… and the conclusion is good news indeed!
Linus is a software engineer. His primary [...]