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OpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025 (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Its a couple weeks old but still relevant to tech. Cover made by https://merveilles.town/users/prahou

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cover made by https://merveilles.town/users/prahou

AKA @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Glad they mentioned him in the article, I love his stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why am I suddenly seeing a surge of that style of art relating to BSD?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He posts a lot of his art on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure, but how did the BSD community decided to adopt them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I dunno, but I would think BSD shares a lot of the same ethos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yay a new 9front.

But I'd like to see a Linux compat layer, which should be possible between syscall intercepts and a glibc build.

Source first, of course, but then maybe binary, sockets are easy to wrap, the rest should be even easier.

Running a Linux chroot under plan9 like I run lxc containers or BSD Jails now would be awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How funny, I only recently learned of 9Front after trying to find out if there's still a fork going of the original UNIX OS from Bell Labs (which is exactly what 9Front is... I think.)

Anyway, nice article. Thanks for posting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plan 9 is inspired by UNIX (Helps that it had the same devs), but it's not a direct continuation.

UnixWare is I think the only direct continuation of the original AT&T UNIX. The various BSDs are close enough but were re-written entirely in the late 80s/early 90s so there's nothing original remaining.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

BSDs are "Unix of Theseus", so they are the closest.

Solaris is a direct continuation that didn't have a rewrite of anything after any litigation.