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How to get started hacking NetBSD By: Taylor Campbell
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A quick look at the rewrite of coreutils with Rust and the history of NetBSD
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Running quality assurance tests for NetBSD, from an enterprise software perspective
community.sap.com Quality Assurance at the Operating System Level - Things LearnedA few years ago, I started using open source software. I exaggerate; it's been decades. The above screenshot show ST04, among other artifacts and a November 1999 time stamp, which puts the SAP R/3 ERP version somewhere between 3.1G / 1998: https://www.hpcwire.com/1998/01/16/sun-posts-record-benchm...
- www.tumfatig.net Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve
I want to run GoToSocial on some *BSD system. Because I am who I am, I went for using NetBSD 10.0 . And because my hypervisor is running bhyve on OmniOS , you get the title of this blog post. Don’t get too anxious, it is quite straightforward. So let the journey begin.
- www.jwz.org time_t is not GMT
When I hear someone say "a Unix timestamp is in GMT" I die a little inside. It is muddy thinking that leads to many of the problems that plague this modern world. A time_t does not have a time zone at all. It is a point in time, a scalar value. A 'struct tm' is a point in spacetime, a vector value. ...
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1982 video from the AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
tilvids.com AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating SystemIn the late 1960s, Bell Laboratories computer scientists Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started work on a project that was inspired by an operating system called Multics, a joint project of MIT, GE, and Bell Labs. The host and narrator of this film, Victor Vyssotsky, also had worked on the Multics ...
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macOS Ventura certified as Unix
mastodon.social nixCraft 🐧 (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image All this talk about the end of the Unix workstation era, but nobody mentions Apple. One can buy macOS Ventura for Intel/Apple CPU, which is certified as Unix by The Open Group https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf . The Unix workstation and laptop line are ali...
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf
- argosopentech.substack.com The Unix Philosophy
The Unix Philosophy is a system design philosophy of using minimalist composable components. As a software development style the Unix Philosophy advocates building small tools that communicate over a universal interface to create larger systems. Higher level functionality then emerges from the combi...
- klarasystems.com UNIX: On the Path to BSD
Find out about the first Unix editions, how C evolved, and which UNIX events led to the birth of BSD.
- randomnixfix.wordpress.com Why the FreeBSD Desktop and My Linux Rant
I have been a FreeBSD user for 4 years now, and a FreeBSD desktop user full time since December of last year (2020). Previously, I used FreeBSD on my desktop on and off since the end of 2019 and ha…
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Cool, but obscure Unix tools (2011)
kkovacs.eu Cool, but obscure unix toolsA little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package ...
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Is MINIX still used as OS?
I've thinking and, before Linux, MINIX was the best operating system for students, and it even helped Linus Torvalds for creating it. Is it still used for educational or commercial purposes? Could you give aniy example?
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UNIX source code
Is there any source code of the originl UNIX? If it is, why is anybody using it for giving life again the first Unix?
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Most UNIX, Unix-like
I want to know what you think is the most UNIX similar OS to the original UNIX, about the User Interface, the commands, the way the programs work, etc