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  • News, updates, and important notices from the BSD Cafe staff. Pull up a chair and stay informed.

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    stefanoS
    @etrigan63 Yes, I have replied

  • The main counter - pair your favorite BSD with good conversation.
    Pick your flavor below.

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    alfonsosiciliano@mastodon.bsd.cafeA
    @grahamperrin Thanks! I read both the comment and the reply. It looks like, conceptually, we came up with the same solution. The main question is what data he used to generate the JSON file and under what license that data is distributed.

  • Where the sun never sets.
    Discussion on illumos-based operating systems and their ecosystems.

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    ptribbleP
    NIS+ got removed from Solaris back at the end of 2009. So it got removed from OpenSolaris and thus illumos, as that was before the fork. This was announced long before. As a heavy NIS+ user at the time, we were somewhat dismayed to read the announcement. Sun said it would be no problem, LDAP was a superior replacement. We actually tried LDAP, and to call it an unmitigated disaster would be far too generous. Apart from the excessive hardware requirements, endless bugs, woeful performance, and lack of basic functionality, there was an almost total lack of administrative tooling. My understanding is that NIS itself is also slated for the chop in Solaris 11 at some point. In theory, you could reinstate NIS+ in illumos - we have the whole commit history so reverting 6874309 wouldn't be so bad. Whether you could get it to work properly is another matter.

  • Where the community meets face to face. Talks, travel tips, and hallway conversations - before, during, and after.

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    elena@aseachange.comE
    @Edent @stefano I spotted you within 2 seconds ​

  • Grab a drink, take a seat.
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    CiotBSDC
    ⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W28: IT news, round-up, week 28; from 07/06 to 07/12. https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/news/week-28-2026/

  • We are inclusive. Linux discussion is welcome at the Cafe too.

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    CiotBSDC
    26/07/11 ⇒ Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday. The x86 fixes for Linux 7.2-rc3 are mostly some minor fixes but one that does stand out is fixing the x86 VGA display fallback logic during the Linux boot process on some multi-GPU systems. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix 26/07/12 ⇒ Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026 It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-SEGA-Dreamcast ⇒ Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-UltraRISC-RISC-V ⇒ Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal" Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-Released

  • Dust off the old hardware. Vintage systems, retrocomputing, and the machines that started it all.

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    Retro Connoisseur is building the Amiga 4000 into a LEGO block case, and the project already feels like the kind of wonderfully unlikely machine that could https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/05/17/lego-amiga-4000-build-commodore-classic-reimagined-as-the-amiga-cd3200/

  • Break things here, not in production. Testing, experiments, and sandbox shenanigans.

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    grahamperrinG
    I sought advice in Matrix, then ran a command: ubuntu-bug qutebrowser End result: Bug #2158488 “qutebrowser crashes when starting” : Bugs : qutebrowser package : Ubuntu

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    grahamperrinG
    My posts: can not be edited under https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/602 can be edited here, for example.

  • Blog posts from individual members

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    CiotBSDC
    (06/22) ⇒ (Linux) Elite Dangerous: complementary tools Installation and configuration of additional tools to play Elite Dangerous (Steam) on Linux http://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/post/linux-elite-dangerous/