jrun: a jail orchestrator for #FreeBSD needs testers!!
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jrun: a jail orchestrator for #FreeBSD needs testers!!
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#FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is here!!!
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Capsicum vs seccomp β capability vs syscallβbased sandboxing #FreeBSD #Linux #capsicum #seccomp
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We built our entire startup infra on #FreeBSD in 2026. Now we need to talk.
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Great news!!
#Babylon5
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1994 Flashback: Bud Tribble on the pivotal NeXT & Sun alliance. π₯οΈ
Itβs amazing to see how OpenStep laid the groundwork for the architecture we still use in macOS today. Real engineering history.
#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #TechHistory #Apple
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La poblaciΓ³ del falcΓ³ mostatxut es mantΓ© estable al Parc Natural de Sant LlorenΓ§ del Munt i l'Obac #Terrassa
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I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammondβs 1986 masterpiece.
Hereβs the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
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#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
My 2025 YouTube Recap
ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you!
#ssh #tmux
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From @jmmv.dev
This is known as "economic interest" π
1986: #GEM versus #WINDOWS - BATTLE of the GUIs #retrocomputing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2PN...
Une plateforme de partage de "stickertop" (autocollants d'ordinateur portable peut Γͺtre une traduction)
https://stickertop.art/
ππ El muro invisible: un meteorΓ³logo italiano revela por quΓ© los #huracanes nunca cruzan el ecuador.
#FreeBSD 15-RELEASE is here!!
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If you run some Solaris or BSD systems, dmidecode needs you !
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This tool is a basic brick we all use and need to understand the low configurations of our machines, if you have 5mn, please help.
#Unix Review Interviews Ted Dolotta and Heinz Lycklama from Interactive Systems Corporation (1984)
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Suddenly I see (#PostmodernJukebox) Sit down and listen ;-)
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A Mark 2 Colossus computer. The ten Colossi were the world's first (semi-) programmable electronic computers, the first having been built in 1943. Unknown author - This file is from the collections of The National Archives (United Kingdom), catalogued under document record FO850/234. A Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking computer being operated by Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), 1943 The image shows a Mark 2 Colossus computer, one of the ten machines built during World War II for British codebreaking efforts. Two women, Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), operate the large electronic computer, which occupies an entire room. The machine is composed of panels filled with switches, dials, cables, and vacuum tubes, representing the first (semi-) programmable electronic computers in history, built in 1943 to help decipher encrypted German communications at Bletchley Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park#/media/File:Colossus.jpg
Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Deciphering enemy code during the second world war was arguably the first role for women in tech
by Suzanne Bearne (from the archives)
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#womenInStem
Modern Linux Tools ikrima.dev/dev-notes/li... from Hacker News via #gcufeed@libera.chat / gcu.info/gruik/
- A performance fix for TCP LRO on some network interfaces
- A build fix for the published pkgbase-repo.tar files
- ahci no longer fails to attach if MSI-X BARs cannot be allocated
release notes www.freebsd.org/releases/15....
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#FreeBSD
#FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1 Now Available
A summary of changes since ALPHA5 includes:
- OpenZFS upgraded to 2.4.0 rc2
- Various fixes to "no-root" release building
- Various fixes to the process for building OCI container images
- Various fixes to the process for building VM and cloud images
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Icon-based interface similar to that of the Apple Macintosh. Its integrated MIDI support also established it as a platform for music production, giving the ST a presence in studios well into the 1990s.
Via @unix-byte.bsky.social
The 1040ST was the first mass-market computer to include one megabyte of RAM, a 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and a graphical interface derived from Digital Researchβs GEM, which provided a windowed.
When the #Atari 1040ST appeared in 1986, BYTE featured it on the cover with the headline: βA megabyte of memory for $999.β
The #QNX Operating System
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