Search results for tag #unix
Made my own Linux distro and package manager in C++ — blazing fast and still growing
https://github.com/SFGOS/starpack/tree/master
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/SFGOS/starpack/tree/master
ttrpg fortunes
fortune is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”.
To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from fortune cookies. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously.
You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task).
What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well.
You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured fortune to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like cowsay which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out.
________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady. / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find Discworld quotes, or, I dunno, your favorite Chuck Norris facts.
Anyway, I was futzing around with our IRC network lately and while playing around with a bot that could use fortune, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).
So I decided to make one.
Right now it’s only a small page on campaignwiki.org: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.
If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there.
Rate this:
cl-yasboi: Yet Another Starter Boilerplate for Common Lisp
https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/cl-yasboi
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/cl-yasboi
A farewell to the ArcoLinux University
https://www.arcolinux.info/a-farewell-to-the-arcolinux-university/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.arcolinux.info/a-farewell-to-the-arcolinux-university/
cl-yasboi: Yet Another Starter Boilerplate for Common Lisp https://lobste.rs/s/apb8w3 #linux #lisp #practices #release #unix
https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/cl-yasboi
I'm a solo gamedev and I use Debian to make my own games and I've just released my third title on Steam !
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1810050/Fortune_Avenue/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1810050/Fortune_Avenue/
UNIX99, a #UNIX like OS for the TI-99/4A computer: forums.atariage.com/topic/380883... #ti994a #retrodev #retrocomputing
I rarely use my personal laptop at my desk, I use it on my lap in front of the TV unless I have a specific need for external displays. Last night, I went to use it at my desk.
Hardware: The same USB-C dongle, two ultrawide and single FHD monitors as ever.
Software: Fully updated @opensuse #Tumbleweed with #NVIDIA drivers.
This all "just worked" last time I used it. Now, I can only use enable one ultrawide at a time.
I shall dig into logs later.
Un Linus Torvalds visibilmente più "senior" ci confessa che "Git è più popolare di Linux", nonostante sia stato pensato come un tool secondario, per agevolare lo sviluppo del kernel.
Un altro aspetto interessante è quanto sia avvenuto velocemente il cambio di maintainer.
Prima o poi anche il kernel Linux sarà dovrà allontanarsi dal suo creatore; il passaggio sarà altrettanto indolore?
https://news.itsfoss.com/torvalds-on-git/
#linux #unolinux #unix #opensource #foss #floss #torvalds #git #github #kernel
My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules
https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html
#Linux users: Have you tried and did you like using #nixos ❄️?
#coding #programming #computing #os #osdev #packagemanager #operating #system #nix #unix #distro #linuxdistribution #linuxdistro #linuxdistributions
| I have not tried it 🚫: | 0 |
| I hated it 😡: | 0 |
| I liked it but DON'T use it 🙂: | 0 |
| I love it and currently use it 🩵: | 0 |
Closes in 1:10:04:38
OpenBSD -current is now "7.7-current" https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250412024911 #openbsd #development #newrelease #unixlike #bsd #unix #security
Updated my router/home-server from FreeBSD 14.1 to 14.2 as well as all the jails and bhyve VMs running services on it.
Still waiting for poudiere to finish some builds for packages, I build locally. But apart from that, everything is done.
As usual, the upgrade was a smooth, uneventful experience without issues 🙂
FreeBSD Jails Security (versus Podman)
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-security/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-security/
I was genuinely excited when DTrace came out in 2005 for Solaris 10.
Observing / debugging normally suffers from
(1) observation has an effect eg on performance
(2) debugging executable is different.
Dtrace has ambitious goals
(1) live in-production observation
(2) negligible impact on performance
(3) instrument all software - os and userland
Dtrace is now in BSDs, Linux, MacOS, even Windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
https://illumos.org/books/dtrace/bookinfo.html#bookinfo
Alt...
book cover Solaris Performane and Tools
#Technology #Computers #UNIX #Linux #SSH
Have you upgraded to OpenSSH 10?
| Yes: | 0 |
| Not yet - Within 90 days: | 0 |
| No: | 0 |
| I utilize some else: | 0 |
Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/
FSR 4 is available on LINUX!? HACKY? Well...
https://youtu.be/OV-XNdn5_t4?si=loL2pHIkjzp7RLW0
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://youtu.be/OV-XNdn5_t4?si=loL2pHIkjzp7RLW0
We're live!
DevOps/SecOps/SRE Instructor
#owncast #streaming #linux #ruby #sysadmin #systemadministration #unix #devops #development #livecoding #codestream #tech
https://live.monospacementor.com
Alt...
Live stream preview
My #introduction post. I’m a Canadian entrepreneur.
#Dad of 2 amazing boys, lifelong #musician, industrial #design school graduate, long-time #coder of things with microchips. Cross platform agnostic — all computers are good #mac #pc #unix, #linux, #ios, #macos, #android. Lives in the future & thankful for it. Loves #books, #movies, #cars, #airplanes, #computers, musical #instruments & fine #clothing.
I dislike racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes and bigots of all types.
RADV Driver Now Emulates Ray-Tracing By Default For Older AMD GPUs For A Newer Game
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Emulated-RT-Indiana-Jones
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Emulated-RT-Indiana-Jones
Easier Wi-Fi control for terminal dudes on Linux written in Go
https://github.com/Vistahm/ewc
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/Vistahm/ewc
After a year (at least) of Linux as my daily distro
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3985
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3985
🍵I wonder how many #UNIX nerds that book created. 😂
I had zero interest in computing outside of Macintosh until I saw his PBS special and read the book.
Did you ever see the special?
I blogged about it here, and have a link to the video in the post (Internet Archive, not YT 😎)
Usability improvements in upcoming GCC version 15 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/10/6-usability-improvements-gcc-15
GNU C Library Lands Workaround After Breaking Various Steam Games, Discord & Other Apps
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-WA-Steam-Exec-Stack
Zram è uno strumento interessante, che potenzialmente permette di "espandere" a costo zero la RAM fisica, o almeno sfruttarla in modo più efficiente.
https://dajelinux.it/archivio/raspberry-zram/
Prima di linkare l'articolo qui ho fatto un po' di correzioni, se doveste trovare delle imprecisioni segnalatelo pure, non mi offendo.
Has anyone made a hard link based to-do system? Like if some project X.docx needs to be run by Alice, link it to
Alice/X.docx, then once that's done, delete it from her folder.#UNIX #Linux
Asahi Lina argues with kernel dev over code authorship and releases all their code as CC-0 in frustration
The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/
+ 
My first hate post: Fun Unix Fact: There are no cats in your terminal https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/fun-unix-fact-there-are-no-cats-in-your-terminal/
Fedora Workstation 42 has finally removed X11
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/261/diffs
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/261/diffs
"The history feature of the UNIX C-shell introduced in the late 70’s was in fact patterned after the Interlisp history package." — Warren Teitelman
The history package is an Interlisp command history facility for Lisp expressions and command replay, undo, and editing. Teitelman introduced it in 1970 to BBN Lisp, the precursor of Interlisp.
https://interlisp.org/documentation/History_of_Interlisp.pdf#page=4
NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-PhysX-Flow-GPU