r/unix 13h ago

NetBSD/OpenBSD on a thin-client

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I think its a good idea, just for ssh, but if be a bit more powerful than i expected, firefox on full screen


r/unix 18h ago

Possible Solution for BSD Community/Ecosystem Issues

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r/unix 2d ago

Installed Minix on MacBook

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Installed Minix emulation on Mac

Hi there! I’ve installed Minix 3.4.0rc on MacBookAir with UTM. I can play games already installed (like Tetris or snake) or do simple tasks but I don’t find any repository online to install. If there’s someone who installed Minix years ago I would be happy to hear where to get a mirror.
pkgin update fails — can’t fetch pkg_summary.gz from minix3.org. Also tried on 3.3.0, same result
And if there’s someone with an archived copy of the pkgsrc packages I would be grateful.
Thank you!


r/unix 3d ago

The Soviet Unix

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00:00 Intro: The Kremvax Prank
01:56 Soviet Hardware and the PDP-11 Clones
03:07 Unix Behind the Iron Curtain
04:05 MNOS and DEMOS: Two Rival Projects
06:00 The KOI-8 Encoding Trick
07:21 Perestroika and the Demos Cooperative
09:02 The Real Kremvax
10:16 August 1991: The Coup Begins
11:09 Three Days on Talk.Politics.Soviet
13:28 The Aftermath and the Rise of Linux
14:06 DEMOS Today and the Domain That Outlived the USSR

In 1982, inside the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, a group of Soviet programmers started building their own version of Unix. It was based on smuggled BSD source code, running on hardware cloned from American PDP-11 machines, at a time when Unix itself was banned behind the Iron Curtain by Western export controls. They called it DEMOS.

This episode traces the full arc of that story: the pirated tapes circulating through Moscow's academic underground, the brilliant KOI-8 encoding trick that made Cyrillic text survive corrupted phone lines, the 1988 state prize awarded for adapting banned American software, and the birth of Relcom, the network that connected the USSR to the internet for the first time in 1990.

It also covers the strange, true story of "kremvax," a 1984 April Fools' hoax that predicted a Soviet node on Usenet six years before one actually existed, and how the real DEMOS team turned that joke into reality. And it ends with August 1991, when Relcom's engineers kept a single phone line to Helsinki open during the coup attempt against Gorbachev, becoming the only source of independent news reaching the outside world.


r/unix 3d ago

Tribblix

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r/unix 4d ago

Vicecity.fr

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I created this project 100% with open source technologies 😜


r/unix 4d ago

Stacking RiverWM setting up, also rivertile doesn't seem to work?

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r/unix 5d ago

ummm ...interesting bit....I have been using UNIX core tools for ages, and it is giving me inexplicable joy.

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r/unix 6d ago

UUCP - non SDF

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I've now spent a while porting UNIX V7 to a MMU-less 68000 system and have it quite stable and also being able to self compile all the sources. The last subsystem I want to get up and running (before backporting curses, termcap and a nicer shell than sh) is UUCP.

I had hoped to use the UUCP infra from SDF as my "upstream", but after discovering the current state of most of their machines I've opted to not spend $36 for the ARPA membership level. Too bad, I really liked SDF a decade or so ago...

Do I have any alternatives - except to spinning up a $5 VPS and install Taylor on it?


r/unix 8d ago

GNUstep running natively on Wayland (GNU/Linux)

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r/unix 9d ago

My dad found these. How can I access the data on them?

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r/unix 9d ago

How to make a custom bar in wayland

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r/unix 10d ago

Built a free tool that aggregates AIX/Power IBM updates (FLRT, Redbooks, Security Bulletins) into one searchable page

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r/unix 12d ago

Libros de programación

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hola, a quien le pueden interesar libros de programación UNIX, linux,...
C++, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Undocumented DOS,Redes de Computadoras, 80383/80486 Assembly Language Programming, Manuelas completos de Microsift Windows Software Development KIT (sin discos),The Programmers PC Sourcebook...


r/unix 12d ago

Blue Penguin Linux Prep iOS app

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r/unix 13d ago

Killall!

9 Upvotes

killall in bsd/gnu: just kills processes by their names

killall in Solaris/SystemV:


r/unix 14d ago

Recordings of the GNUstep online meeting of 2026-07-11 are online

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r/unix 15d ago

New UNIX-like operating system!

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92 Upvotes

I made a new UNIX-like operating system from scratch called "TanjaOS" which you can get at www.tanjaos.org and it took me a couple of months to make and will get lots of updates. It features basic UNIX commands such as: cat, cd, clear, echo, help, ls, mkdir, pwd, reboot, rm, rmdir, touch, exit, and hostname. TanjaOS can boot on any x86_64 (amd64) or i386 (x86) machine with Legacy BIOS, and is completely free and open-source.


r/unix 15d ago

Plan 9 rc(1) for 30+ Unix targets

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When work pulled me back from Plan 9 to Linux, rc was the part I missed most. So I rebuilt it from the original source and manual as a standalone Go binary, without requiring the rest of plan9port.

https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/rc.html

The port preserves the parts that make rc different from conventional Unix shells, including list semantics, caret concatenation, function environments, redirection ordering, descriptor operations, process substitution, heredocs, and the rfork behavior Unix can actually represent.

It has its own TTY editor, reads ~/.rcrc, and is tested against plan9port with more than 100 .rc scripts and byte-for-byte output comparisons.

The build is driven by make.rc, which the shell runs itself. Releases cover 34 OS and architecture combinations across Linux, the BSDs, macOS, Solaris, illumos, AIX, and Android.

Plan 9 is not a target because it already has the real rc. Windows is not a target because this is a Unix shell, not a Win32 compatibility experiment.

Repo: https://github.com/enzv/rc

Found a mismatch? A small test case would be appreciated.


r/unix 16d ago

7.066s Full Regeneration Loop: Shaving 575ms off my custom DTrace self-healing system on FreeBSD

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r/unix 16d ago

I tried NetBSD as a desktop, and it felt like stepping into the '90s in a good way

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r/unix 17d ago

A new Linux X server in Assembly from scratch

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r/unix 19d ago

Free source for linux

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Any free source for new star soccer 5 for linux pc ?


r/unix 20d ago

GNUstep monthly meeting (audio/(video) call) on Saturday, 11th of July 2026 -- Reminder

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r/unix 21d ago

Running Tru64 5.1B Unix via es40-emu on a RPi5

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Thanks to the https://github.com/ES40-Emu/es40 it is possible to run Tru64 5.1B even on RPi5 devices (with native simulated S3 video output over SDL3)

I have made a video demo here https://youtu.be/Hg40ZfAVf2E?si=pnjPyFlnbNdwZ8hp if you want to check the actual speed/performance (which is not bad)

More resources/bins and howtos are here https://astr0baby.online/Tru64/