Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.
- FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!”
- Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
- Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
- You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
- NetBSD Core Team Changes.
- HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
- Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
- Enable firefox dark mode.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
- Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the “Let’s Note” laptops mentioned.
- Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
- Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
- What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
- OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
- Time on Unix. (via)
- Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
- virtualization in windows.
From https://tamentis.com/projects/openbsd-ksh-port/
> Barely compiles and kinda runs (thanks to many ugly hacks) on:
> macOS (tested on 10.13, 10.14)
> Linux (tested on Ubuntu 18.04)
If anyone would like OpenBSD KSH that *does* work, Brian Callahan (OpenBSD developer) made it work on over a dozen of OSes – https://github.com/ibara/oksh