#unix — Public Fediverse posts

#OverUnder 080 with Eric Bower

His thoughts about #POSIX, #terminals, #multiplexers, #Neovim, and #ClubSandwiches.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #unix #shells #linux #opensource #tmux #ghostty

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080

An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists

Motif is great, I love how it looks and feels, and I want it to be actively maintained. I want a healthy ecosystem of Motif applications and even window managers and desktop environments, so I can run a real Motif environment. Sadly, while Motif has been open source for a while, the project itself stalled years ago,

https://www.osnews.com/story/145877/an-actively-maintained-and-updated-motif-fork-actually-exists/

#Unix

#UNIX #BSD #Linux but also #Windows

Well, that was unexpected.

Still learning things about #unix #shell after a quarter century of using it!

$ foo=bar
$ echo "hello '$foo'"
hello 'bar'

The GUI didn't make computing easier. It made you a passenger.

Type cd .. and you're navigating — you know where you are, where you're going. Click the arrow in your filemanager and you're following a path someone else designed. The first is writing. The second is a reflex.

Same logic from the Airbus that overrode its pilot to the spellchecker that corrects you without asking: the machine's judgment overrides yours, silently, automatically.

Not a feature. A philosophical manifesto.

And when writing came back — through the AI — it returned as supplication, not sovereignty. The closed-source GUI and the undisclosed LLM are the same thing.

Newsletter: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/open-the-hood-why-your-gui-is-lying-to-you/

Full version on the blog — mimesis in Plato, induced illiteracy as a business strategy, the pincer of clicking and requesting, and what it means to open the hood: https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/the-icon-and-the-command-line-image-truth/

#ai #BSD #openSource #unix #cli #gui #privacy #sovereignty #digitalFreedom

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/08/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/valuable-news-2026-08-24/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

I wrote an ascii85 encoder in shell script.
It takes 1.5 minutes for 250kb and 8 minutes for 1mb to process.
Not very useful. But it was fun to code.
#shellScripting #unix #linux

I've written up a retrospective on my UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing, highlighting the cool things people accomplished and learned, along with snapshots of the filesystem throughout the workshop. It was a lot of fun!

https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-v4-demo

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

eh: a minimalist vi-like editor https://lobste.rs/s/au6oho #editors #unix #vim
https://codeberg.org/SirWumpus/eh

@testobsessed

"After 40 years, I have not yet closed my last shell script, ... "

This is the most endearing talk I have, ever, ever seen.

Fascinating subject matter, of course, lots to learn. The man himself is such a --- I don't know what to call it --- an event? He's an event. The overhead projector! The slide rule! The anarchic uncontainability! The unbounded energy!

Most importantly: the wisdom. The gentleness. The courage. The dedication to passing on the message.

I have tears of joy in my eye.

#DefCon34 #CliffStoll #hackers #unix

@meluzzy

I still use the Almquist shells for scripts. Having none of the heavyweight interactive and extensions stuff to initialize is a definite advantage, as Debian/Ubuntu found out years ago.

I am glad that yet another person has learned of the #WatanabeShell .

Line editing, via libedit, and history work in the BSD flavours of the #AlmquistShell, by the way. Debian simply builds it with editing and history disabled.

#UnixShells #Unix #NetBSD #FreeBSD

Oh, beside still alive opensourced CDE there's also NsCDE project, aiming to recreate look and feel of the desktop using theming of more modern and popular components.

Need to check it out.

#CDE #CommonDesktopEnvironment #Unix

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

https://playtechnique.io/long/the-unix-time-sharing-system.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401122

#HackerNews #Unix #TimeSharing #System #Technology #Learning #Programming #History

A lot of people, for some reason, when talking about process supervisors: "we can't use shell scripts for services because that's what sysvinit does and therefore it's bad"
Me, using s6: "so anyways my entire system is brought up using shell scripts and it's way faster than any of the systems using bespoke definition languages."

🤔 Ah yes, the #groundbreaking revelation that #Unix is the secret sauce behind #LLMs, just like how gravity is the reason we don't float into space. 🚀 Who knew that typing “ls” would revolutionize AI? Clearly, this blog post is a Pulitzer contender. 🏆
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/ #AI #Revolution #Technology #HackerNews #ngated

LLMs are proof that Unix won

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390066

#HackerNews #LLMs #Unix #Technology #Computing #Innovation

I love it when technology lifts get so big and technical that they eclipse enterprise solutions and return to fundamentals. That's my game. I'm here for you when that happens. It will happen. 🤣

Also, it's always DNS.
Also too, it's never a better time to switch to Debian.

#sysadmin #greybeard #linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #floss #selfhosted #smallbusiness #residential #consumer #consumergrade #gomindswithmeidareu #debian #fundamentals

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years - Phoronix https://lobste.rs/s/exrno8 #linux #release #unix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-RC1