I’m going to just title these “Lazy Reading” – I end up with too much diverse information/links to fit within the title.
- Neal Stephenson’s thoughts on UNIX. (via)
- Also stolen from the same place: A comparison of text-based browsers.
- Have I mentioned clicky keyboards before? (yes) If you’re a fan of the IBM Model M-style buckling spring keyboard, this Apple keyboard review has links in the comments to clickykeyboards.com and pckeyboards.com, which both have options that may interest you. I’ve only linked one of those before.
- Robot orders coffee. (Youtube, via) The interesting part is that it’s relatively humdrum.
- Modern Perl is now available (free) in ePub format, in addition to PDF. I’ve been reading it; it’s a refreshingly straightforward book.
- It’s always nice to see DragonFly ideas spread.
- You may have heard of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the incredibly-awkwardly-named Linux kernel with FreeBSD userland FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland. (How did I manage to reverse that?) Did you know there’s a blend of Linux and NetBSD called SSDLinux? (via) It’s sold on commercial products! I know nothing of it past that link. Come to think of BSD mixes, there’s also that XNU/FreeBSD/NetBSD mix…
- Your DragonFly Pro Tip for the day: always use serial numbers to ID your disks. You’ll be glad you did.
- Git as a backup disk index mechanism. Strange. Git for mail storage, too. (via)
Minor nit on your Debian reference. It’s a FreeBSD kernel with a Debian userland.
The only connection to Linux is that all of the *other* Debian ports include a Linux kernel.
It’s kind of a ‘dancing bear’ of operating systems, in my opinion. It’s not that it dances particularly well, it’s that it dances at all.
That’s an excellent analogy.
Picking a nit on my own nit: I forgot about Debian/Hurd, which is even more of a dancing bear. Or a Potemkin Village, perhaps. So there are *two* Debian ports with non-Linux kernels.