unix

I want this on hardware with network support and modern sleep for laptops. I know "Of course it runs NetBSD", but.....does it work well enough on a laptop?

#netbsd10 #netbsd #laptop #runbsd #unix

Finally tried #NetBSD 10.1 RELEASE baremetal on my #ThinkPad #T470s. Good news is most things seem to work out of box: WiFi, touchpad, i915 drived video card. Bad news is, suspend/wakeup (S3) not working. It appears suspend worked well since after issuing sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleep.state=3 the laptop went to sleep with blinking power led, fan stops. However, at wakeup keyboard just stops responding, even swtiching tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys. WiFi usually wakes up just fine since I gain ssh session back shortly after wakeups. I will conclude a major issue for a system if suspend/wakeup won't work for a laptop. I simply cannot imagine having to poweroff a laptop every day before going to bed. It is kinda a sueprise to me since I assume ThinkPad laptops usually get along well with #BSD and #Linux systems.

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

Just upgrade a VM of mine running #FreeBSD 14.3 to 15.0 RELEASE, all went well in probably 20 minutes. Super fast, dead simple, and not frightening at all thanks to #ZFS BE backups. It felt so easy that I am even a bit bored.

#BSD #RUNBSD #Unix #FOSS

Feels like my laptop is trying to talk to me here!

#NetBSD #BSD #RUNBSD #UNIX #FOSS

all the ways in which terminals' text rendering is bad (2024) via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/k7kojd #graphics #unix
https://ecs.d2evs.net/posts/2024-05-27-terminals-bad.gmi

So I’m designing a new #GUI toolkit with #REPL built-in, heavy on #UNIX philosophy and shell integration. Inspired by ed(1), of course. But I need to stress-test this design against possible use-cases for such a GUI. What are the small GUI apps you use daily or want to have that’d benefit from a really simple custom GUI you can hack up in an hour?

So far I have:
• Disk flashing utility (I keep forgetting the commands)
• Shell
• Music player

Any other ideas?

#theWorkshop

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

Main: "Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2
Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Graphics Platform: X11

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559

#runbsd #freebsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot

Any #Plan9 or #9front expert on fedi? I heard a lot about it and few days ago when I spotted a new release of the 9front and there was #qcow2 #QEMU images, I started to look at it. However I never get the #rio #GUI session to work. I am starting the #VM by:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-machine q35 -enable-kvm \
-m 2g -cpu host \
-vga std \
-drive "media=disk,if=virtio,file=$HOME/Downloads/9front-11952.amd64.qcow2" \
-netdev user,id=vioif0,hostfwd=tcp::5699-:22 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vioif0 \
-no-reboot \
-daemonize

my host system is #Debian #Linux running on #X11. The error message after login with glenda was not very informative though:

hjfs: fs is /dev/sd00/fs

init: starting /bin/rc
bind: #i: no frame buffer
rio: cannot open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: file does not exist: '/dev/draw'
init: rc exit status: rc 217: rio 326: display open
init: starting /bin/rc

#Unix #FOSS #AskFedi #SDF

Tremenda fumada, y porque ya no fumo porros…

https://jlogp.org/#18_diciembre_2025_miedos_y_alegrias

#terminal #unix

I revisited the 2018 LWN series “A look at terminal emulators” and re-read its notes on st.

Back then, the articles tested st 0.6/0.7 (Debian/Fedora) and 0.8.1 upstream, a fair snapshot of the time.

I went through the upstream st git history from 2018 → 2025 and mapped many of the issues discussed (Unicode/wide glyphs, input crashes, paste & tmux integration, redraw/latency, escape sequences) to the actual fixes that landed over the years.

No single “big patch”, just steady maintenance:
wide-glyph correctness, crash-class input fixes, bracketed paste terminfo, latency tuning, and modern escape/color handling.

I wrote a short technical note with links to the relevant commits:
https://4c6e.xyz/code_notes.html
(post: Revisiting ST after the 2018 LWN analysis)

I’ve been using st + tmux daily on Slackware and it’s been solid: minimal, fast, predictable — exactly what I want on X11.

#st #suckless #unix #tmux #x11 #slackware

I noticed that #XLibre got built in #FreeBSD #ports so I thought why not try it in a VM. Turns out it is just list you would do install xorg, a few stantard #pkg commands and it just runs !

#RunBSD #BSD #FOSS #Unix

Scroll through a random video on YouTube about the #JWM window manager, seems interesting. Looked much like #OpenBox, both used #XML format config files. I was amazed to see the #Win95 style theme worked great simply config-ed from one file.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UeSj2F-yc
https://github.com/slovjinika/jwm-themes

#FOSS #Unix #WM #WindowManager

Cheatsheet trick for tools with too many shortcuts:

$ alias screenhelp='cat ~/.screen-cheatsheet.txt'
$ screenhelp

One alias per tool.
No apps, no TUIs, no search.
Just cat and muscle memory.

Example:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/My_GNU_Screen_Setup.txt

#unix #commandline #gnu #screen

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy https://lobste.rs/s/0mjyep #unix
https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark

Following my #NetBSD 10.1 journey where my #ThinkPad T470s wake up from S3 suspend with dead keyboard and touchpad yet working WiFi, today I tried with the lastest 11.0 snapshot (20251220). All the same as before, unresponsive keyboard and touchpad, with working WiFi. However when I tried with a USB connected keyboard in default #CTWM session, the keyboard seemed to work after a while. At the same time, WiFi got disconnected so I lost ssh access and had to use power button for hard shutdown.

I think I will probably end my NetBSD journey at this point.

#FOSS #Unix #BSD #RunBSD

A history of teapots and UNIX https://lobste.rs/s/ql5jpq #graphics #unix
https://discuss.systems/@thalia/116417242648384997

git-kv: Key-value store attached to git commits using Git notes https://lobste.rs/s/ygjm5d #devops #unix #vcs
https://github.com/sebastien/git-kv

Trying out NextSpace on Slackware -current with XLibre.

A modern implementation inspired by the classic NeXTSTEP desktop. It's interesting to see how its design and workflow still feel relevant decades later.

Definitely a fun project to explore.

#Slackware #NextSpace #XLibre #Unix #X11

I am running #FreeBSD RELEASE 15.0 with #pkg for package management, no #ports at all. It appeared to me that the Joe's Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without #SVG image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under #JWM . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up #poudriere and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?


#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM

After seeing @ly2en bsddialog installer UI, I got curious and tried it on my own Slackware ThinkPad.

Built bsddialog from git (thanks to @alfonsosiciliano for the project) and wired it into my tty1 session menu — this is what my login screen looks like now.

Clean fonts, proper spacing, no GUI toolkit… it really feels like a real BSD-style installer, not just “dialog in a box”.

#BSD #Slackware #TUI #Unix

The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie https://lobste.rs/s/my3lu9 #pdf #unix
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2020/05/102790971/Ritchie_dissertation.pdf

Dolphin File Manager: Enable Administrator or Root Access

Attain the necessary steps on how to activate the administrator or root mode access using KDE Plasma’s default file manager application Dolphin.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/dolphin-enable-administrator-root-access/

#blog #KDE #linux #unix #tech @kde

Resolve GNOME Shell v49 Failed to Start Gnome-Session-X11

Resolve the frustrating circumstance to the problem where GNOME Shell Display Manager version 49 fails to start unit gnome-session-x11.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gnome-shell-49-failed-start-session-x11/

#blog #GNOME #linux #unix #tech