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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.
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    CiotBSDC
    @naltun said: tyvm ??? Hummm, maybe: "Thank you very much", isn'it?!

  • 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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    grahamperrinG
    Thanks, I deleted my duplicate!

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

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    CiotBSDC
    06/29 ⇒ Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper. https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-threadripper

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

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    CiotBSDC
    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/