It animated the web, ran its games, crashed its browsers and leaked like a sieve. The rise and very slow fall of Flash, no intro to skip.
A professor, a student, a 386 bought on instalments and the most famous flame war in history. Spoiler: the “obsolete” kernel is now in your pocket.
Containers don’t exist. There, we said it. From 1979’s chroot to Docker’s whale: 34 years of well-coordinated lies the kernel tells processes, and a cow ruling on which ones are acceptable.
Type apt-get moo and a cow appears. The true story of the Super Cow hiding in Debian’s package manager, her calendar, her cousins, and why this blog has a cow in charge.
