zirkus

94 posts87 participants0 posts today

AtemuDoes anyone know of a <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museum</a> of sorts where you can experience <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> machines from the 70s/80s hands-on?I'd love to one day experience the way our predecessors did everyday tasks such as using a shell on a <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/teletype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teletype</a> or writing a simple C program in <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vi</a> / <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emacs</a> on a hardware <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terminal</a> half a century ago.Bonus points if it's near <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a>.:boost_ok:

Wolfgang StiefSGI Professional Iris Workstation. Seen at Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/sgi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/personaliris?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#personaliris</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/unix?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/workstation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workstation</a>

arosano 🇩🇰🇮🇱<a href="https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@brouhaha</a> for me Windows 95 was the last windows version ever. Since then it has been <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> , <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bsd</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a>

Unix WeeklyGaming on Linux EP#154: The Last of Us Part 2 | Linux vs Windows | Nobara | CachyOS<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlWesPuLeE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlWesPuLeE</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlWesPuLeE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlWesPuLeE</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Abhiseck Paira :gnu:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@mage_of_dragons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mage_of_dragons</a> "Unix is proprietary" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a>

mage_of_dragons> "UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard StallmanThank you random arch forum user from 2011<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stallman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stallman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Nate AllenI would be a greybeard <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> guy if I could grow a non-scraggley beard, and it's unfair to the <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> teens to claim that the IRS and Social Security rely on ancient <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a> code that only a few people alive actually understand. They also rely on ancient <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/FORTRAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FORTRAN</a> code and even I never studied that at Computer Camp.

AlanGrassiaFantastic talk by Brian Kernighan about the early days of Unix at <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VCFEast2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VCFEast2025</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a>

Lobstersashos: The immutable/mutable meta-distribution (universal bootstrapper) <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/5qf3bi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/5qf3bi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://github.com/ashos/ashos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/ashos/ashos</a>

Blake PattersonThinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement. The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency). That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available. It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor. (The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeXT</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NEXTSTEP</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeXTstation</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTCube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeXTCube</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OS</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStep</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DisplayPostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisplayPostScript</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostScript</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GUI</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MC68K</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computinghistory</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteveJobs</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Golang Weeklyundervolt-go - a Golang port of Python based 'undervolt' for Intel CPUs<a href="https://github.com/Softorage/undervolt-go" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/Softorage/undervolt-go</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/Softorage/undervolt-go" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/Softorage/undervolt-go</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#golang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Unix WeeklyAn interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips<a href="https://dmitry.gr/?proj=36.+8pinLinux&r=05.Projects" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dmitry.gr/?proj=36.+8pinLinux&r=05.Projects</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://dmitry.gr/?proj=36.%2B8pinLinux&r=05.Projects" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://dmitry.gr/?proj=36.%2B8pinLinux&r=05.Projects</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/embedded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embedded</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

C & C++ WeeklyThe Wizard and His Shell<a href="https://terminal.click/posts/2025/04/the-wizard-and-his-shell/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://terminal.click/posts/2025/04/the-wizard-and-his-shell/</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://terminal.click/posts/2025/04/the-wizard-and-his-shell/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://terminal.click/posts/2025/04/the-wizard-and-his-shell/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cprogramming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

LobstersAnnotated Unix Magic Poster <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/m2fjzg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/m2fjzg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://unixmagic.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://unixmagic.net</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄The Unix Magic Poster in hi-res png: <a href="https://github.com/drio/unixmagic/blob/main/static/ump.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/drio/unixmagic/blob/main/static/ump.png</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Unix WeeklyLinux support for 'Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour' is coming along now it's open source<a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Rust Weekly 🦀Linux ARM64 stable compiler is now PGO/BOLT optimized, and up to 30% faster<a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.86.0#user-content-1.86.0-Internal-Changes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.86.0#user-content-1.86.0-Internal-Changes</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.86.0%23user-content-1.86.0-Internal-Changes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.86.0%23user-content-1.86.0-Internal-Changes</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rustlang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

DarrenThe airline industry should consider adopting the beautiful terse <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a> error condition nomenclature. Would save lots of time. People would adapt. No more long airport announcements just<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EBADPLANE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EBADPLANE</a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ENoPilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ENoPilot</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ENOCREW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ENOCREW</a>.

ScribblemacherYou can use `cat` to combine arbitrary files. For example: cat image.png data.csv > new-image.pngWill make new-image.png that opens in an image viewed, but if you open it in a text editor, it'll have the csv data readable at the end.<a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Unix WeeklyGNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming</a>Discussions: <a href="https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ubuntu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#unix