444: Historic Developments
The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more.
March 3, 202253m 36s
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Show Notes
The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more.
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Headlines
A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB
Modern inetd in FreeBSD
News Roundup
The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API)
Retrocomputing can be more than games
You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual
Beastie Bits
- New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published
- GhostBSD Online Meetup
- HAMBug online meeting, March 8th @ 18:30 ET
- HardenedBSD 12-STABLE support will be dropped in May 2022
- Option options for getopt
- New Tarsnap version is out
- pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available
Tarsnap
- This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.
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