jbzTribblix is an operating system distribution derived from OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, and illumos, with a retro style and modern components. The base kernel and commands come from illumos, with everything else rebuilt from scratch.
Hacker NewsTribblix: the retro illumos distribution
#HackerNews #Tribblix #illumos #retro #distribution #open #source #UNIX #operating #system
DƦmon S.Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I haven neither
Thinking on the bright side, I wasn't affected by the xz thing, for example.
When... If... I get a new machine, and/or a new spinning HDD for my laptop, I'll likely ditch Linux altogether and go with illumos, OpenIndianna, or whatever niche OS esoteric and unknown enough not to be a target of AI-assisted exploits (even BSD-based OSes don't seem like an alternative, as I recall seeing something linking some SomethingsomethingBSD to newly-discovered exploits; luckily, illumos is overly obscure).
Or, to quote the meme, "I'm going to build my own, with..."
#linux #arch #archlinux #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #openindianna
pacman -Syu nor yay -Syu my Arch (btw) setup since... checks notes... 2021? (Yes, it's this out-of-date; actually, I did update specific packages such as librewolf using makepkg -si twice this year, but I didn't update anything else, let alone updating the repositories).Thinking on the bright side, I wasn't affected by the xz thing, for example.
When... If... I get a new machine, and/or a new spinning HDD for my laptop, I'll likely ditch Linux altogether and go with illumos, OpenIndianna, or whatever niche OS esoteric and unknown enough not to be a target of AI-assisted exploits (even BSD-based OSes don't seem like an alternative, as I recall seeing something linking some SomethingsomethingBSD to newly-discovered exploits; luckily, illumos is overly obscure).
Or, to quote the meme, "I'm going to build my own, with..."
#linux #arch #archlinux #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #openindianna
rtn
Jonathan PerkinHad a play with Claude Fable 5 to see if it could improve on my previous CTF performance work.
https://github.com/jperkin/illumos-gate/commits/ctf-performance/
Yeh, it gained another 33%, as well as finding some correctness issues. Now 42x faster than baseline, with 21x reduction in system time.
JdeBPSort of. Folk wisdom has #macOS derived from #FreeBSD. But actually XNU is a descendent of #NeXTSTEP. Both FreeBSD and NeXTSTEP were derived from from BSD, but not from *exactly* the same point in its evolution and neither from the other.
And of course they diverged from each other.
But you can, say, pull up an old iOS manual page and see it saying 'BSD' at the head, compare it with the same page from FreeBSD, and contrast it with #Debian and #Illumos:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzset&sektion=3
https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=tzset§ion=3
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages-dev/tzset.3.en.html
Dark Blue Project*** Repost on new instance ***
Hello Fediverse,
I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.
FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.
Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.
#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue
Dark Blue ProjectHello Fediverse,
I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.
FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.
Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.
#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue
My point was that it's important to remember that #Wikipedia can be out of date because what has been put in it was woefully out of date when it was written in.
I actually don't think that it should say what you wrote. If I were writing it, I'd mention #Illumos, because that's different as I said. I'd also add in the history with the various names from the 1980s such as /usr/lib/spell. I'd furthermore belie the article title since the file was not and is not always named 'words'. It has in fact been named various things such as 'list', 'hlist', 'web2', and 'canadian-english'. There was even once a mullti-lingual system in the AT&T world, inspired by extending spell(1) from only English to French as well.
But your way would at least describe the right century, even if not all operating systems; and at least agree with page 106 of the 2002 edition of _Linux for Windows Administrators_, written by some pair of blokes. (-:
David Cantrell šUpgraded my #IllumOS dev VM last night. It was a very very boring update, absolutely nothing at all went wrong, exactly as I expected. But *of course* I took a backup first!
My IllumOS #CPANtesting VM is busy, catching up on a week-long backlog - the host machine was powered off while I was away for a few days - so that one will get its upgrade ... whenever.
