.localhost domains https://lobste.rs/s/j10cbv #unix #web
https://inclouds.space/localhost-domains

Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/

I had forgotten I still had this!

There are familiar names on this paper.

GNU C Library Lands Workaround After Breaking Various Steam Games, Discord & Other Apps

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack

Asahi Lina argues with kernel dev over code authorship and releases all their code as CC-0 in frustration

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250325235522.3992-1-dakr@kernel.org/t/#m3e7ce5eea7efd29afbd4cf3a4911cc16b7847293

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250325235522.3992-1-dakr%40kernel.org/t/%23m3e7ce5eea7efd29afbd4cf3a4911cc16b7847293

The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems

https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/

Man pages are great, man readers are the problem https://lobste.rs/s/fwohal #unix
https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/

Fedora Workstation 42 has finally removed X11

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/261/diffs

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/261/diffs

My first hate post: Fun Unix Fact: There are no cats in your terminal https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/fun-unix-fact-there-are-no-cats-in-your-terminal/

What's the killer feature of ed (line-oriented text editor)? Its ability to run on systems with approximately three transistors.

"The history feature of the UNIX C-shell introduced in the late 70’s was in fact patterned after the Interlisp history package." — Warren Teitelman

The history package is an Interlisp command history facility for Lisp expressions and command replay, undo, and editing. Teitelman introduced it in 1970 to BBN Lisp, the precursor of Interlisp.

https://interlisp.org/documentation/History_of_Interlisp.pdf#page=4

NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU

The UNIXan dream: Everything can be done with a pipe chain.

Hardened File Backup Routine via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/6uabab #security #unix
https://wrongthink.link/posts/hardened-backup-routine/

Package manager apt makes version jump to 3.0.0

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Package-manager-apt-makes-version-jump-to-3-0-0-10342858.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.heise.de/en/news/Package-manager-apt-makes-version-jump-to-3-0-0-10342858.html

Hey #unix nerds, am I going crazy?

Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-containers/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-containers/

dreckly: pkgsrc fork focused on quality and portability to all UNIX-like platforms via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/spjeuv #dragonflybsd #freebsd #linux #netbsd #openbsd #unix
https://github.com/drecklypkg/dreckly