TIL about MirBSD Korn Shell
Instead of talking about it here, I invite you to surf to the site and learn about it.
Compliments of @mirabilos https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos

https://mbsd.evolvis.org/mksh.htm

#Korn #Shell #sh #MirBSD #programming #OpenSource #technology #BSD #Linux

@pu

That's difficult to answer without a concrete idea of what a dependency is.

If it's who develops it, then #GhostBSD's major developers are in Canada, and #MirBSD's major developers are in the E.U./Switzerland.

If it's which BSDs would be unaffected if Microsoft-owned GitHub decided to pull the rug out from underneath them, then the answer is rather different.

Financial dependencies, and WWW/mail/other hosting dependencies, are different again.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonFlyBSD #NetBSD

#MidnightBSD (by @laffer1; we have met) is the one with the cat in the logo.

#MirBSD (by yours truly) is the one with the cat on the central CVS server.

Know the difference!

#FediCats

@rqm

@rl_dane hit the nail on the head.

This isn't really specific to completion. It's just general overlong input line editing behaviour.

The PD #KornShell and its derivatives (e.g. the #MirBSD Korn Shell) only have line editing with a single line that sideways scrolls.

ksh93, however, has a
set -o multiline
option for switching to a multiple-line line editing mode. (The Z and Bourne Again shells have similar.)

You might like the Watanabe shell. It's in ports.

@magicant
#UnixShells

TIL about the existence of MirBSD

Go read and learn about the project

#BSD #MirBSD #Unix #OpenSource #programming

http://www.mirbsd.org/

TIL about the existence of MirBSD

Go read and learn about the project

#BSD #MirBSD #Unix #OpenSource #programming #technology

http://www.mirbsd.org/

MirBSD: Welcome at MirBSD

#pkgsrc 2025Q1 will be the last branch to support several platforms listed below,
due to bitrot and lack of use. If you'd like to speak up, please use the
following threads:

#MirBSD https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/03/12/msg030607.html
GNU/kFreeBSD https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/03/11/msg030600.html
#Interix https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/03/08/msg030572.html
BSD/OS https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/03/17/msg030646.html

Removing MirBSD support

As times go on, #Linux kernel and distributions are degrading.

Including, sadly, my first and only one, #Debian that I used daily since I mamage to configure XFree86 on Potato, when I was ~16 yo (if I remember correctly).

For a year now I was looking (without much time to invest) for a #BSD to try.

Today I think I've found the best candidate with @[email protected]'s #MirBSD after I've read the Rationale of http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS-Licence.htm

Back then Debian got my attention because of the values they declared, freedom and sharing.
Unfortunately over the years they were escalated and slowly corrupted, reduced to formal adherence to a social contract that can be subverted in practice.

The whole #FreeSoftware movement has been marginalized, while its values are strumentalized to fool users' trust.

Even #FSF is laying behind with #copyleft licenses full of loopholes exploited by #SaaSS and #AI corporations.

It's time to move on, and a small BSD developed by a passionate #hacker might be a good new starting point.
The MirOS Licence (MirBSD)

@starshine oh noes, this is a GtS-unvotable poll (which remembers me to write a bugreport about these).

  • #Debian
    • though I switched to bullseye from tracking unstable for over a decade and will most likely cease using it when bullseye ELTS ends
    • successor might be giving OpenBSD anothe chance or NetBSD unless I find a palatable Linux I can also justify using for $dayjob
    • requirements for this are dayjob-compatible (needs JDK, occasionally LibreOffice, some kinds of modern software, and VM host) and I use it privately for MuΝ’seScore and Firefox ESR, anything else private I do on MirBSD
  • #MirBSD
  • "other" but a rather low amount of (the occasional DOS or other trickery, and I write stuff)