When are we going to be able to use something
(eg a further developed e-Smith server/g'way)
to reduce the cost of sharing such functional-
ity across a LAN?
If we -could- connect & share single-function
devices to a network, ie -via- separate ports
of an old Pentium II running e-Smith software
(now known by Mitel Networks as "SME Server")
when any of them failed, only its functional-
ity would disappear until it got fixed.
An "All-In-One" boxs cost effectiveness comes
from sharing an expensive single network port
across the different functions (print, FAX, &
scan, to name a few), but at the expense of a
big loss whenever the single unit "broken" or
having its (typically small) toner cartridge
replaced, not to mention paper jams & conten-
tion for any two of the functions provided...
I say Make a simple (eg e-Smith-style) server
with lotsa ports (printer, USB, etc.) do what
an e-Smith box can do for printer/FAX sharing... so users can choose cheaper (with no net-
work interface), single-function peripherals,
that can be used -simultaneously- by multiple
Users.
Too easy, eh?
But even sign-lang's for English are incompatible.
on
Sign Language Out Loud
·
· Score: 1
Remember the book "Train Go Sorry" (about the
deaf community, eg with some -declining- sur-
gery that would give them the power to hear)?
Why? Something about nurturing their deaf
community, ie as something special & unique,
just as valid & worth preserving as, say a
particular & special species of whale, et al.
Seems a bit like members of the Open Source
Movement declining to load any flavor of
Windows (or other proprietary software) onto
their computers.
(Also a bit like Fahrenheit 451's community
of people who declined to give up great works
of poetry, literature (ie books), that were
prepared to live apart - if they had - just
to keep their traditions (& forbidden books)
alive, so that they could be passed to the
next generation.)
Back to Sign Language:
Too bad that folks who speak only / primarily
(typically -one- flavor of) Sign Language
-still- have barriers to communication with
many of their contemporaries, who happen to
know -another- one [ie, their local] elsewhere
in the world.
And, this applies to English-based sign lan-
uages (AusLan in Australia is incompatible
with its US counterpart, et al.).
The effect is unfortunately akin to "divide &
conquer" where international organisation of
deaf communities is seriously limited, -or-
more likely to be in the hands of non-deaf
people, who may or may not represent the
interests of the deaf communities' majorities.
Have we got a cool techie solution that looks
after the interests of deaf peoples' needs &
desires to build bridges between geographi-
cally &/or Sign Language divided communities?
Or are our "innovations" (such as the one
that speaks "Out Loud" - not very helpful to
a deaf person) just designed for us, or maybe
to support -surveillence- by of deaf people
and/or their communitiesHomeland Security?
Let's try to build tools that bridge gaps
not just toys that might be misused here.
Open Source can't hurt, but
you'd -still- have to be sure
that -all- the executables
were made from the final source,
that everybody has access to,
for the eVoting Boxes.
Then, you have to insure that
no changes are made just before
the machines are used... etc.
I wonder if their acronym is there to increase
the number of hits, for reasons beyond me, from
the users/developers of GPS (Global Positioning
Systems) with rather different semantics...?
Folks, -any- profession (&/or the workplaces
around it) that has influenced -lots- of
peoples' lives has had TV series about itself.
We've had lots of medicos... from "Ben Casey"
& maybe some before him...
We've had lawyers... from "Perry Mason" &
We've had police from The "Untouchables"...
We've even had teachers & schools (recently
"Boston Public" - which got -cut- in Australia,
soon after a sequence on the use of "Nigger"
(we're not racist down here, we just don't
want to give our people anything too controvertial
to think about...)
Someday (if/when programmers become influential
again (remember when we were -mostly- physicists,
mayhematicians or electronics engineers?),
we might see some TV series on programmers.
Would anybody like to brainstorm up some story-
lines for "The Programmers" that might fit into
a 30-minute slot, each week?
But I just thought I'd mention a tool for GPS-
based navigation... that might help people
who are blind get around, eg for GeoCaching &
other outdoor activities like it.
Although map-based (so turn that off or use a
cheaper computer with a broken screen...;-)
this sleek, Austrian-developed GpsDrive lets
one get verbal reports of position, direction
of travel, and proximity to points of interest
and/or chosen destinations.
I think it may be include in recent versions
of SuSE Linux, but I don't know if it gets
installed by default... Anyone know? (If so,
which version(s) are we talking about here?)
Enjoy!:-)
PS For Radio Amateurs, there is UI-View and
APRS (of which UI-View is a spin-off), that
can let several friends keep track of each
others' positions, using 2-way radios... a
bit like Garmin's Rino handheld radio/GPS,
but you have more access to the position-
reports coming out of the UI-View / APRS
boxes...
Of course, it might be good to develop a
GPS-based system that's better-suited
for the blind than any of the above...
which seem to assume a sighted user.
If the appropriate legal contracts are in place,
this seems very much like Family or other Trusts
holding ["at arms length"] shares, et al. on
behalf of its member(s).
In Australia, there may be tax advantages for
those who use trusts.
Politicians (who might be deemed to have conflicts-
of-interest, eg when their shares' values may
change with how the vote goes on some proposed
legislation) have been known to place these
shares (or their entire portfolio) into the
hands of trust managers, to reduce their risks
in this regard...
'don't know if I am convinced that it's an
effective mechanism for the purpose...
Back on topic, I think anyone who -values-
freedom of expression should find anonymous
domain registration a worthy (if -not-
absolutely necessary) tool for enhancing it.
I wonder if a -temporary- domain name mechanism
(like 'use-once' credit card numbers) would be
of value, in this context?
Maybe something like under a -new- TLD, eg
'.tmp' that would make "time-division-
multiplexing" of domain-name usage possible:
[www.].tmp[.au]
Modern database technologies already make
liability-racing for such transient domain
names quite possible technically, as the
typical car rental agency package demonstrates.
If NZ's history is anything like Australia's,
I'm really -not- surprized by this report.
There really needs to be a move -towards-
acting in accordance with the people's
wishes, eg more like Switzerland & Sweden do.
But, no... Past is prologue... & that past
is one that involves colonialization by
Britain... which positioned the people
as free to bow to the Royal Family, but
not much else, as far as I can see...
The bigger island country can't even decide
to become a republic, let alone act rationally
when invited to send troops to Iraq this year.
Australia's Telstra wanted to charge people
for -receiving- SMS messages (& may do now),
& may get away with this spamer's delight.
'Why should -your- IP rights not belong to us'
might be a logical next step to such an
outrageous on from Telstra... which is STILL
receiving well over 90% of the market's profits,
long after competition was to arrive in Oz...
No, things are ong overdue for change in both
island countries, but whoever openly supports
such change stands more chance of losing out,
unless they are employed by the gov't's ABC.
Brenda Maddox on why the young English biophysicist Rosalind Franklin was never to know how vital her own work was to Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of 'the secret of life.'
The biographer of D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats and Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's wife, Brenda Maddox talks about her life of Rosalind Franklin at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature.
See also:
"The Dark Lady Of DNA"
Author: Brenda Maddox/Rosalind Franklin
Publisher: Harpercollins
If you leave the last big town, to go bush
in Australia, you might as well leave your
GSM handset behind, in favor of a CDMA unit.
Cheaper than sta.phones, the CDMA had greater
range (over flat terrain) & about the same
air-time costs as GSM, here...
So, that's the terrain of Iraq like, then?
ABC cuts gore from injured child's Iraq war photo
on
4l-j4z333ra 0wn3d
·
· Score: 4, Informative
Australia's ABC (TV, I suppose) has reportedly
cropped the portion of a picture of a young
girl's feet, which were to be seen dangling,
after apparently having been blown loose by
an explosion, in the ongoing Irag war.
The report of this "editting" the gore away,
to make a photo more acceptible to Australian
viewing audiences, as well as other revealing
aspects of media censorship, were mentioned on
this morning's Media Report, now available via
audio-on-demand, in RealAudio format, at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/audio/mediarpt_27032003_2856.ram
This 27 March program included British photo-
journalist Tim Page talking about this kind
of selective reporting & sanitizing of war
images, eg, from Vietnam to Iraq.
Come back in about a week for the transcript,
eg at URL:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/sto ri es/s815573.htm
War solves nothing... unless, of course,
your company is selling to Defense...
I just spoke to yet -another- person who's
volunteering, with an eye to getting a good
job later, in a State Gov't job.
What next? Will people in S Australia have
to PAY to work FREE in gov't offices?
Unlike SA, I just heard that a Melb. Uni
has got a very attractive scholarship
program to attract Australia's best,
from around the continent: Tuition-free,
Free flights home for breaks, a small
pile of cash for living expenses, et al.
(About what a grad student might expect,
but it's for undergrad's & they don't
have to teach or do research in early
years)
OT: Underground Housing - A Better Choice
on
Back to the Trees
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Australia's Coober Pedy (in South Australia)
has a large number of underground homes.
Even closer to the exclusive Adelaide Hills
we found some underground houses.
The obvious advantages are:
- low heating costs &
- low cooling costs
In short, a very energy-efficient home form
Coupled with a solar hot water system,
a fuel cell or wind-power system & a
quiet air circulation system (out with CO2
& radon gas; in with oxygen-rich air,
possibly full of nice local fragrances),
this type of house really rocks, especially
if it's built into a hillside, so you have
a terrific view out your front viewport...
On a recent science or medical info radio program, it was said that:
- rates of breast cancer in women may be linked
to the amount of time they work in artificial
lighting (eg office flouro's)
The research found that women who work at night, presumably in artificial lighting, have higher rates of breast cancer.
Blind women have much lower rates of breast cancer.
'don't know if it matter -which- type of lighting they're experiencing, but it might be good to know... ie -before- choosing a lighting system technology for the home.
I don't have a link to the original Danish research work, but here's a German link:
www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeitsalltag/gh/bru st krebs.html
If it's any easier to do it like they do, ie,
to interface phone & Internet services)...
so try it like that.
On the other hand, remember that - for NON-
commercial applications - the hams have had
autopatch service (interfacing, say, a 146 MHz
repeater to POTS, so that any [authorised]
amateur, who could acccess the repeater
can also make [in that case, local] calls,
that they dial themselves, using DTMF-pads
in the microphones of their 2-way, radios,
presently using narrow FM modulated voice).
Commercial trunked systems have telephone
interconnects, which seem like the same
thing, except each radio can be identi-
fied by the system, so it's easier to
allocate call-costs to user(s).
Oh, the [more or less open (sometimes
you have to join a radio club to access)
amateur radio autopatch systems usually
limit calls to local and/or emergency
tel.no's... still -free- in USA...?
A portion of the Club membership pays
the monthly phone bill for the line.
(Of course, in Australia - with its
tradition of gov't-owned telco (a.k.a.
Testra - currently accounting for 90+%
percent of the market; read: monopoly)
- local calls are -not- free, so hams
in Australia never enjoyed the benefit
of the autopatch.)
Oh, and if the [SA] Gov't Radio Network's
telephone-interconnect is any indication,
trunked radio networks charge HEAPS for a
phone call from a trunked radio (handheld
or mobile)... one service paying Au$ 8 / min
ie before it was removed from most radios.
Also, each radio in the network capable
of using the telephone interconnect ser-
vice was charged Au$ 5 / month - just like
cel.phones.
If you implement your -own- trunked radio
network, with tel.interconnect, you could
decide for yourself how to charge.
BTW, you didn't give us any indication of
how much traffic each handset/radio might
be expected to generate here...?
something like this (emphasis mine, & I've removed "available" a few times):
FreeBSD most -powerful- x86 open source Unix
OpenBSD most -secure- open source Unix
NetBSD most -portable- open source Unix
Linux most -popular- open source Unix
Does anybody have a different idea on this?;-)
&, on non-x86 hardware, what's the most powerful UNIX?
Slashdot Mirror
There are no topics listed on the programmes
What am I missing?
Organizers: This is the page that needs a fixin:
http://lca2004.linux.org.au/partners.cgi
(list of event dates...)
South Australians just can't tell time...
Search for "Ham" on this page:
www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/p
How does that list compare to other Linux
(or BSD's, et al. for that matter)?
When are we going to be able to use something
(eg a further developed e-Smith server/g'way)
to reduce the cost of sharing such functional-
ity across a LAN?
If we -could- connect & share single-function
devices to a network, ie -via- separate ports
of an old Pentium II running e-Smith software
(now known by Mitel Networks as "SME Server")
when any of them failed, only its functional-
ity would disappear until it got fixed.
An "All-In-One" boxs cost effectiveness comes
from sharing an expensive single network port
across the different functions (print, FAX, &
scan, to name a few), but at the expense of a
big loss whenever the single unit "broken" or
having its (typically small) toner cartridge
replaced, not to mention paper jams & conten-
tion for any two of the functions provided...
I say Make a simple (eg e-Smith-style) server
with lotsa ports (printer, USB, etc.) do what
an e-Smith box can do for printer/FAX sharing
work interface), single-function peripherals,
that can be used -simultaneously- by multiple
Users.
Too easy, eh?
Remember the book "Train Go Sorry" (about the
deaf community, eg with some -declining- sur-
gery that would give them the power to hear)?
Why? Something about nurturing their deaf
community, ie as something special & unique,
just as valid & worth preserving as, say a
particular & special species of whale, et al.
Seems a bit like members of the Open Source
Movement declining to load any flavor of
Windows (or other proprietary software) onto
their computers.
(Also a bit like Fahrenheit 451's community
of people who declined to give up great works
of poetry, literature (ie books), that were
prepared to live apart - if they had - just
to keep their traditions (& forbidden books)
alive, so that they could be passed to the
next generation.)
Back to Sign Language:
Too bad that folks who speak only / primarily
(typically -one- flavor of) Sign Language
-still- have barriers to communication with
many of their contemporaries, who happen to
know -another- one [ie, their local] elsewhere
in the world.
And, this applies to English-based sign lan-
uages (AusLan in Australia is incompatible
with its US counterpart, et al.).
The effect is unfortunately akin to "divide &
conquer" where international organisation of
deaf communities is seriously limited, -or-
more likely to be in the hands of non-deaf
people, who may or may not represent the
interests of the deaf communities' majorities.
Have we got a cool techie solution that looks
after the interests of deaf peoples' needs &
desires to build bridges between geographi-
cally &/or Sign Language divided communities?
Or are our "innovations" (such as the one
that speaks "Out Loud" - not very helpful to
a deaf person) just designed for us, or maybe
to support -surveillence- by of deaf people
and/or their communitiesHomeland Security?
Let's try to build tools that bridge gaps
not just toys that might be misused here.
My 2 cents...
Open Source can't hurt, but
you'd -still- have to be sure
that -all- the executables
were made from the final source,
that everybody has access to,
for the eVoting Boxes.
Then, you have to insure that
no changes are made just before
the machines are used... etc.
(the Subject asks it all...)
I wonder if their acronym is there to increase
the number of hits, for reasons beyond me, from
the users/developers of GPS (Global Positioning
Systems) with rather different semantics...?
(Subject sez it all, folks... ;-)
nothing to see here... move along
Folks, -any- profession (&/or the workplaces
around it) that has influenced -lots- of
peoples' lives has had TV series about itself.
We've had lots of medicos... from "Ben Casey"
& maybe some before him...
We've had lawyers... from "Perry Mason" &
We've had police from The "Untouchables"...
We've even had teachers & schools (recently
"Boston Public" - which got -cut- in Australia,
soon after a sequence on the use of "Nigger"
(we're not racist down here, we just don't
want to give our people anything too controvertial
to think about...)
Someday (if/when programmers become influential
again (remember when we were -mostly- physicists,
mayhematicians or electronics engineers?),
we might see some TV series on programmers.
Would anybody like to brainstorm up some story-
lines for "The Programmers" that might fit into
a 30-minute slot, each week?
Does it -have- to be Linux?!?
SDF (the free shell-provider) switched -from-
Linux... after a security breech...
OpenBSD is claiming to have had:
"Only one remote hole in the default install,
in more than 7 years!"
That's not too bad IMO.
And... if you -really- itch for Linux...
you can always put it on a box -this-
side of an OpenBSD box (ie away from
the Internet...)
The point of the question is obviously an OS...
;-)
:-)
But I just thought I'd mention a tool for GPS-
based navigation... that might help people
who are blind get around, eg for GeoCaching &
other outdoor activities like it.
Although map-based (so turn that off or use a
cheaper computer with a broken screen...
this sleek, Austrian-developed GpsDrive lets
one get verbal reports of position, direction
of travel, and proximity to points of interest
and/or chosen destinations.
I think it may be include in recent versions
of SuSE Linux, but I don't know if it gets
installed by default... Anyone know? (If so,
which version(s) are we talking about here?)
Enjoy!
PS For Radio Amateurs, there is UI-View and
APRS (of which UI-View is a spin-off), that
can let several friends keep track of each
others' positions, using 2-way radios... a
bit like Garmin's Rino handheld radio/GPS,
but you have more access to the position-
reports coming out of the UI-View / APRS
boxes...
Of course, it might be good to develop a
GPS-based system that's better-suited
for the blind than any of the above...
which seem to assume a sighted user.
C'mon, fellas... CBC's science program Quirks & Quarks
reported (over 18 months ago) that islet transplants
were suceeding in almost 90% of cases.
A further development (by a private sector co.)
reported greater success rates or fewer problems.
Let's get this story as well, eh?
This short book is loaded with tips... eg:
"If they didn't hire you,
don't solve their problem"
"If you need the money, don't take the job"
There's lots about this issue.
Amazon has it & some successor texts...
If the appropriate legal contracts are in place,
this seems very much like Family or other Trusts
holding ["at arms length"] shares, et al. on
behalf of its member(s).
In Australia, there may be tax advantages for
those who use trusts.
Politicians (who might be deemed to have conflicts-
of-interest, eg when their shares' values may
change with how the vote goes on some proposed
legislation) have been known to place these
shares (or their entire portfolio) into the
hands of trust managers, to reduce their risks
in this regard...
'don't know if I am convinced that it's an
effective mechanism for the purpose...
Back on topic, I think anyone who -values-
freedom of expression should find anonymous
domain registration a worthy (if -not-
absolutely necessary) tool for enhancing it.
I wonder if a -temporary- domain name mechanism
(like 'use-once' credit card numbers) would be
of value, in this context?
Maybe something like under a -new- TLD, eg
'.tmp' that would make "time-division-
multiplexing" of domain-name usage possible:
[www.].tmp[.au]
Modern database technologies already make
liability-racing for such transient domain
names quite possible technically, as the
typical car rental agency package demonstrates.
What'cha think...?
If NZ's history is anything like Australia's,
I'm really -not- surprized by this report.
There really needs to be a move -towards-
acting in accordance with the people's
wishes, eg more like Switzerland & Sweden do.
But, no... Past is prologue... & that past
is one that involves colonialization by
Britain... which positioned the people
as free to bow to the Royal Family, but
not much else, as far as I can see...
The bigger island country can't even decide
to become a republic, let alone act rationally
when invited to send troops to Iraq this year.
Australia's Telstra wanted to charge people
for -receiving- SMS messages (& may do now),
& may get away with this spamer's delight.
'Why should -your- IP rights not belong to us'
might be a logical next step to such an
outrageous on from Telstra... which is STILL
receiving well over 90% of the market's profits,
long after competition was to arrive in Oz...
No, things are ong overdue for change in both
island countries, but whoever openly supports
such change stands more chance of losing out,
unless they are employed by the gov't's ABC.
Here's a lot more of the story of her work:
Book Talk on "The Dark Lady of DNA..."
[Broadcast on Saturday 29 March 2003]
Listen via Audio on Demand from:
www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/booktalk/audio/booktalk_29
Brenda Maddox on why the young English biophysicist Rosalind Franklin was never to know how vital her own work was to Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of 'the secret of life.'
The biographer of D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats and Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's wife, Brenda Maddox talks about her life of Rosalind Franklin at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature.
See also:
"The Dark Lady Of DNA"
Author: Brenda Maddox/Rosalind Franklin
Publisher: Harpercollins
If you leave the last big town, to go bush
in Australia, you might as well leave your
GSM handset behind, in favor of a CDMA unit.
Cheaper than sta.phones, the CDMA had greater
range (over flat terrain) & about the same
air-time costs as GSM, here...
So, that's the terrain of Iraq like, then?
Australia's ABC (TV, I suppose) has reportedly
cropped the portion of a picture of a young
girl's feet, which were to be seen dangling,
after apparently having been blown loose by
an explosion, in the ongoing Irag war.
The report of this "editting" the gore away,
to make a photo more acceptible to Australian
viewing audiences, as well as other revealing
aspects of media censorship, were mentioned on
this morning's Media Report, now available via
audio-on-demand, in RealAudio format, at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/audi
This 27 March program included British photo-
journalist Tim Page talking about this kind
of selective reporting & sanitizing of war
images, eg, from Vietnam to Iraq.
Come back in about a week for the transcript,
eg at URL:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/st
War solves nothing... unless, of course,
your company is selling to Defense...
I just spoke to yet -another- person who's
volunteering, with an eye to getting a good
job later, in a State Gov't job.
What next? Will people in S Australia have
to PAY to work FREE in gov't offices?
Unlike SA, I just heard that a Melb. Uni
has got a very attractive scholarship
program to attract Australia's best,
from around the continent: Tuition-free,
Free flights home for breaks, a small
pile of cash for living expenses, et al.
(About what a grad student might expect,
but it's for undergrad's & they don't
have to teach or do research in early
years)
Australia's Coober Pedy (in South Australia)
has a large number of underground homes.
Even closer to the exclusive Adelaide Hills
we found some underground houses.
The obvious advantages are:
- low heating costs &
- low cooling costs
In short, a very energy-efficient home form
Coupled with a solar hot water system,
a fuel cell or wind-power system & a
quiet air circulation system (out with CO2
& radon gas; in with oxygen-rich air,
possibly full of nice local fragrances),
this type of house really rocks, especially
if it's built into a hillside, so you have
a terrific view out your front viewport...
On a recent science or medical info radio program,
it was said that:
- rates of breast cancer in women may be linked
to the amount of time they work in artificial
lighting (eg office flouro's)
The research found that women who work at night,
presumably in artificial lighting, have higher
rates of breast cancer.
Blind women have much lower rates of breast
cancer.
'don't know if it matter -which- type of
lighting they're experiencing, but it might
be good to know... ie -before- choosing
a lighting system technology for the home.
I don't have a link to the original Danish
research work, but here's a German link:
www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeitsalltag/gh/br
Other links are available; cf:
Google("breast cancer" artificial lighting blind rates)
If it's any easier to do it like they do, ie,
to interface phone & Internet services)...
so try it like that.
On the other hand, remember that - for NON-
commercial applications - the hams have had
autopatch service (interfacing, say, a 146 MHz
repeater to POTS, so that any [authorised]
amateur, who could acccess the repeater
can also make [in that case, local] calls,
that they dial themselves, using DTMF-pads
in the microphones of their 2-way, radios,
presently using narrow FM modulated voice).
Commercial trunked systems have telephone
interconnects, which seem like the same
thing, except each radio can be identi-
fied by the system, so it's easier to
allocate call-costs to user(s).
Oh, the [more or less open (sometimes
you have to join a radio club to access)
amateur radio autopatch systems usually
limit calls to local and/or emergency
tel.no's... still -free- in USA...?
A portion of the Club membership pays
the monthly phone bill for the line.
(Of course, in Australia - with its
tradition of gov't-owned telco (a.k.a.
Testra - currently accounting for 90+%
percent of the market; read: monopoly)
- local calls are -not- free, so hams
in Australia never enjoyed the benefit
of the autopatch.)
Oh, and if the [SA] Gov't Radio Network's
telephone-interconnect is any indication,
trunked radio networks charge HEAPS for a
phone call from a trunked radio (handheld
or mobile)... one service paying Au$ 8 / min
ie before it was removed from most radios.
Also, each radio in the network capable
of using the telephone interconnect ser-
vice was charged Au$ 5 / month - just like
cel.phones.
If you implement your -own- trunked radio
network, with tel.interconnect, you could
decide for yourself how to charge.
BTW, you didn't give us any indication of
how much traffic each handset/radio might
be expected to generate here...?
On this page:
;-)
http://www.soekris.com/products.htm
something like this (emphasis mine, &
I've removed "available" a few times):
FreeBSD most -powerful- x86 open source Unix
OpenBSD most -secure- open source Unix
NetBSD most -portable- open source Unix
Linux most -popular- open source Unix
Does anybody have a different idea on this?
&, on non-x86 hardware, what's the most powerful UNIX?