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Kevin Karhan

3d ago

@nmott consider #toybox then?

It's done by a fmr. #BusyBox maintainer on a clean new codebase and is used as #Userland for #Android…

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Radio_Azureus Feb 20

@kaveman

Please use the link in this toot to directly access the source repository

https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/116103250251003244

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

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Radio_Azureus Feb 20

This is a direct link to the project's github page

https://github.com/littlefly365/Netbase

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

GitHub - littlefly365/Netbase: A port of the netbsd utilities for linux(and may be another unix like operating systems)

A port of the netbsd utilities for linux(and may be another unix like operating systems) - littlefly365/Netbase

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Radio_Azureus Feb 20

@kaveman
That's an odd error message to have.
Usually we get that with YouTube
Which continent are you in?

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

Radio_Azureus Feb 20

Wonderful BSD news

Netbase shall bring netBSD userland utilities to Linux

Version v0.1 is released by introducing a new endeavor to port netBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes

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The first release already includes a substantial set of core utilities including

cat echo ln mv pwd rm rmdir sleep chmod sync date mkdir test chown basename env dirname id tee yes head printf wc false true whoami uniq nice tty grep domainname hostname

The powerful ksh is also in the release

The potential benefits are practical

Developers working across BSD and Linux may prefer consistent tool behavior in both environments Security researchers and systems engineers may want to test or standardize on BSD utilities without switching operating systems.

It may also appeal to users who prefer BSD-style implementations over GNU ones for philosophical or technical reasons.

Read more about this subject in the provided link

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

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Kevin Karhan

Feb 19

@alina personally I can also recommend good #CLI tools that just work.

#mc (#MidnightCommander)
#neomutt
#aewan (for designing #TUI interfaces)
#enc
#btop
#ytdlp
#lynx / #LynxBrowser
#curl
#toybox (which is a minimalist #userland for #Linux)
#ne (nice editor)
#nvChad (when you want to turn #neovim into an #IDE but don't know where to start)

And many more.

Cuz I work on the idea of a #MDA / #80x25-centric Linux-distro (@OS1337) that is focussed on #FrugalComputing!

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Kevin Karhan

Jan 10

@mook except that's not true:

Xorg is going to be a safer bet

Xorg is dead. It's basically braindead and harvested for organs at best.

we can just run old software forever

Good luck with that. Just don't complain that not everyone wants to waste time to support 0,1% of people that run IE6 of that no hardware vendor will bend over backwards to support #EoL'd #Kernel|s & #Userland.

maybe personal computing peaked around 2014 or so and we are entering an age of scientific stagnation

I think we're allowing too much #Enshittification but that's not due to #Wayland and #SystemD, because both are at worst necessary evils because their predecessors (#Xorg & #SysVinit) have refused to fix their issues and thus it's easier to start anew instead.

so forcing everyone to jump onto new unstable thing because 'progress' ..

Look, I don't like #Linux dropping #i386 support either, but I have neither the time nor skills nor spoons to change that.

i think we should have a healthy suspicion of that kind of thinking

Well, I do have. In fact I do better in a a side project (@OS1337) in case you want to use an #i486SX in 80x25 MDA, be my guest…