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.

NOTES
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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

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