This thread is meant to post useful and interesting links concerting BSD/UNIX and more generally tech related content. Opinionated blog posts, fun resources, and anything stimulating a vibrant discussion is welcome. Original content is encouraged, and you're invited to share it here with the rest of the community.

I'm aware of more than a user here who actively write on a personal website. I'll only mention @yeti 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 wscons - SPARC OpenBoot edition

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JuvenalUrbino

I'll start by sharing my most recent posts:

nortonham

JuvenalUrbino

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

JuvenalUrbino

nortonham Yes, Solene <Percent> 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.

nortonham

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

JuvenalUrbino

Browser bookmarks? I got nothin' besides that lmao

Jay

JuvenalUrbino 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

JuvenalUrbino

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

nortonham

Two new C compilers for OpenBSD:

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220629.html

pfr

Jay rss links

~~what are the rss links?~~ nm, i found them

I've read this one before and I really like it and generally like his writing.

JuvenalUrbino

Shell functions to (re)load and view pf.conf rules in an anchor

nortonham

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-delusions-of-debian.html

nortonham

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220721122727

OpenBSD current has moved to 7.2 beta

joany

NetBSD 9.3 released
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_3_released

guess i will have a fun Sunday 😆

joany have fun :)

nortonham

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/netbsd_93/

A look at NetBSD 9.3 from The Register. I thought it was pretty poorly written myself, but I suppose it's from the perspective of someone who hasn't used it before.

yeti

nortonham Dunning-Kruger-Effect?

joany

nortonham
Fun read..
I manage to install XFCE4 i a few minutes..
Did i cheat?

nortonham

yeti

Possibly....or more likely just a writer that is used to doing things the linux way. A couple of the criticisms in the article were valid imo, but some others I didn't think were fair. Hopefully when 10 is released the same author gives it more of a chance.