unix

Novellas with groff https://lobste.rs/s/54xwm8 #unix
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html

the lost malloc() https://lobste.rs/s/ihqhia #c #historical #unix
https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/

groff/troff macros: ms, mm, me or mom https://lobste.rs/s/dbwbvr #unix
https://www.stephenlindholm.com/groff_macros.html

MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib https://lobste.rs/s/otexs4 #graphics #unix
https://motif-central.org/

#AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.
#FOSS #Unix #Linux

86open https://lobste.rs/s/oqc2sn #historical #unix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format#86open

kitty 0.50.0 https://lobste.rs/s/gwyv50 #release #unix
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#id1

Toying around with the #shod window manager on #FreeBSD. It feels so magic when you can group different application windows together as tabs, as shown in my screenshot where two #xterm windows and a #Firefox share the same window frame as three separate tabs. This is also what I found fascinating about #pekwm and #HaikuOS. #Fluxbox also has something similar I think. And again thanks #ZFS boot environments, I cannot say this enough.

#BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM

I'm experimenting with two ASCII logos for slackfetch, my minimal system information tool for Slackware.

Which one should be the default?

Vote below! 👇

#Slackware #Linux #Unix

Old: "Zaonce" - Dell Inspiron 1525
Operating System: OpenBSD 8.0 amd64
Desktop: LXQt 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Graphics Platform: X11/xenocara

https://bsd-hardware.info/?computer=58b29987d5af

#runbsd #openbsd #fishlinux #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #shareyourdesktop

Yay. I just got hit on the nose by rsync sloprot. Somehow I had avoided it so far. The "don't worry, it's fixed in the next version. Just upgrade" response doesn't fill me with warm fuzzy feelings. I'm now pondering my options. I haven't found a clear obvious safe choice for a slop free fork yet, and switching to another implementation will involve a verification process, and possibly porting of tooling.

Can we please just keep our software working reliably?

#linux #unix

Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools by @sstephenson https://lobste.rs/s/dwbksa #show #unix
https://brut.sh

What is malloc doing, anyway? https://lobste.rs/s/l75lxf #c #unix
https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway

The hardest tarball https://lobste.rs/s/t7qkjb #unix
https://stoppels.ch/2026/11/07/the-hardest-tarball.html

My 2027 UNIX wishlist.

-NetBSD gets ZFS on root, and in the installer.
-NetBSD gets FreeBSD's jails, including VNET support.

<or>

-FreeBSD fully and finally declares a no AI policy.

As much as I like OpenBSD, neither of those things have ANY chance of making it into their source.

Also, has anyone forked a slop free tmux, yet?

#UNIX #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD

"FreeBSD is only for servers" needs to be permanently retired.

Running FreeBSD 15.1 on the trusty ThinkPad T480, and the desktop experience is outright sublime:

- Idle power draw: hovering at an absurd ~2.0W package power
- Wi-Fi: 802.11ax rock-solid
- Hardware video acceleration: fully working in both Firefox and Chrome
- Webcam and audio: working flawlessly
- Productivity: Xfce 4.20 on X11 flying along on ZFS
- Yes, even Factorio runs like a dream

Between the battery efficiency, sane base system, and native ZFS, this machine feels faster and quieter than it has in years.

2026 really is the year of the BSD desktop.

#FreeBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #Unix #BSD #OpenSource #Xfce #Factorio

Plots of deltas between time scales https://lobste.rs/s/aayqm3 #historical #science #unix
https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html