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I'm aware of more than a user here who actively write on a personal website. I'll only mention @"yeti"#145 because I'm confident he won't mind (and also because he actually writes very good content).

I'll start by sharing my most recent posts: - [keeping my repo tidy with lintpkgsrc](https://retrobsd.ddns.net/2k6pea.htm) - [wscons - SPARC OpenBoot edition](https://retrobsd.ddns.net/vcscda.htm)

@"JuvenalUrbino"#p12328 I'm not sure that this is what you had in mind. This is definitely not mine, but from Solene, who everyone should follow on her blog: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchallenge-v2-rtc.html

And for opinionated blog posts, look no further than the unix sheikh. Lots of great articles but here's one to get you started: https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html The article is about three years old now, but it's interesting to read nonetheless, especially given that Lennart Poettering just got a job at microsoft........

@"nortonham"#p12337 Yes, Solene falls definitely within the sort of things I had in mind. I wouldn't mind having it regularly linked here. My main problem is keeping track of new posts from authors I like, since not everybody implements a RSS2/Atom feed, and honestly, for some reason I don't like rss as much as I did in the past now. This is also one of the reasons why I decided to start a newsserver.

@"JuvenalUrbino"#p12341 Browser bookmarks? I got nothin' besides that lmao

Two new C compilers for OpenBSD: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220629.html

@"nortonham"#p12350 I noticed I had a growing number off bookmarks on almost any platform :P.

@"JuvenalUrbino"#p12341 what we currently have is Matrix room with few rss links so whenever new article gets published we get message with title and link to article that we all users get updates and we can click and read the ones we find interesting :P

[ed Cheat Sheet](https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=ed_cheat_sheet)

BSD news thread

Jay

DragonflyBSD 6.4.1 released!
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/

Jay

OpenBSD 7.7 released!
https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

Jay

Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2025 contributors!

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors

JuvenalUrbino

Unix as IDE

jmcunx

Ran across this blog entry on FPU Emulation added to NetBSD by
Mikhail Zakharov (Blog), github. I think this means it is possible to run NetBSD on a 486SX.

The link was from a Linux article was in the register about Linux dropping 486 support.

jmcunx

Ran across this link a few days ago, it is a review of the NetBSD installer:

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

Parts 1 and 2 reviews FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I saw somewhere part 4 will be for DragonFlyBSD.

Jay

Unveiling the EndBOX

https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

oui

Chromium is available in pkgsrc 🥳

It used to be in wip status since forever, but now having both chromium and firefox compiling and working is a huge milestone for desktop NetBSD.

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