Michael C. Barnes is founder and president of NorhTec, a company that builds small, fanless, energy efficient computers for standalone embedded and mobile applications. He has twenty five years of experience with computers and related technologies. Mr. Barnes frequently writes about computers, technology and audio. During his career, he invented the inverted horn loudspeaker and coined the term Microserver for a new class of small servers. Mr. Barnes' was an early adopter of Linux. His first distribution was Slackware. At the time, Mr. Barnes was with Sun Microsystems and used Linux as a learning tool for Unix as he could not justify buying a Sun Microsystems server for his home.
MEPIS has released two versions of Linux. SimplyMEPIS is designed for
non-technical end users. ProMEPIS is designed for more technical users,
administrators, IT professionals and web developers. SimplyMEPIS has become
the sixth most popular desktop Linux distribution on www.distrowatch.org and
recently MEPIS was number three in the monthly rankings. This is an amazing
feat when you consider that MEPIS was founded in November 2002 and is mostly
the work of one person, who like Madonna, only identifies himself by his
first name, Warren.
Many Linux distributions have created a lot of buzz, exciting Linux fans that
Microsoft Windows now had a rival. Lycoris created a stir because of its
artistic Windows-like look-and-feel. Lindows, now Linspire, got a lot of
press for telling future customers and potential investors that it was
developing a Linux that would run Microso... (more)
Michael C. Barnes is founder and president of NorhTec, a company that builds small, fanless, energy efficient computers for standalone embedded and mobile applications. He has twenty five years of experience with computers and related technologies. Mr. Barnes frequently writes about computers, technology and audio. During his career, he invented the inverted horn loudspeaker and coined the term Microserver for a new class of small servers. Mr. Barnes' was an early adopter of Linux. His first distribution was Slackware. At the time, Mr. Barnes was with Sun Microsystems and used Linux as a learning tool for Unix as he could not justify buying a Sun Microsystems server for his home.
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