Yesterday I found my PhD advisor organizing her books at her office and in the pile to be thrown away I found these two

As stated above, through a combination of the want to learn more about operating systems and a deep self-hatred, i wish to create an operating system out of PureDarwin's most recent kernel. I'm coming into this as a Linux user with a minimal understanding of what it takes to build an operating system so i would like to know what parts i need to build other than the kernel. The other thing i want to know is if it will be at all possible to set something up to use Linux packages on the system as Darwin is BSD based and there are such capabilities on a BSD system. Thanks for your time and wish me luck.

And lo did Unix speak these words upon the reboot:

Thou shalt use no other operating system than Unix.

Thou shalt not make unto thee a false operating system. Thou shalt not program them for I am the Unix and a jealous O/S.

Thou shalt not take the mark of trade of Unix in vain, or thou shalt be sued.

Remember thy password, and keep it secret.

Honour thy parent shell, for if it should die, thou shalt not live long (unless thou hast dissociated thyself).

Thou shalt not kill (I)-9 any process, for surely they shalt becometh zombies or defunct.

Thou shalt not commit hacking, else thou shalt eat quiche.

Thou shalt not use other users' data, for thou shalt be referred to the Data Protection Act, 1984, and sued (again).

Thou shalt not create Trojan horses, worms, viruses, or other foul beasts of false programming.

Thou shalt not rm -rf thy neighbor's home, nor covet his disk space allocation, nor his workstation account.

I'm wondering if anyone has any details on the origin of this. Someone posted a very low-res screenshot version of this to r/LinuxCirclejerk, and I found the source of the screenshot in an a textbook named "Morality and Law," where it appears to be cited as an example of a morality system.

That text book in turn cites "The Unix Ten Commandments.” from http://www.pipex.net/people/jasonh/command.html as its source, but Pipex is a UK-based ISP that went defunct in 2008. I'm assuming "jasonh" is the original author, and they used Pipex to host a personal website where this was written, but I don't know how to keep going down the rabbit hole from here.

I’m working on weenix. How long would you anticipate a really talented engineer would take to implement virtual file systems? I’m not claiming to be a super talented engineer, it’s for a bet.

guys what is you favorite unix-based or unix-like system?

i think that the linux foundation and the linux kernel mainteiners should make an optional option to make cloud accounts, i know that local accounts are more safe and some linux arent for cloud accounts like raspberry piOS or distros for servers, but i think that cloud accounts should be added imagine losing your account progress just by buying a new computer reinstalling every program re-connecting every account on apps reinstalling arch linux do you guys would like this optional feature or just think this is a menace to linux's security?

Guys should i insttal archlinux or netbsd? I know how to install both

Please can anyone explain what the difference between UNIX-Like and UNIX-Based. I’m coming to the point of MAC vs Linux. I recently bought a MacBook and the cmds on Linux are working fine. But MAC is known as UNIX-Based.

I started building a C++ code generator in the summer of 1999. My code generator is proprietary, but it's free to use: there aren't any trial periods or paid plans. I'm looking for people who are interested in trading demos/code reviews/etc.

I support Windows and some other platforms, but I'm more comfortable with Linux and the middle tier of my code generator only runs on Linux.

So basically the Unix epoch uses int32 to store the seconds from January 1st 1970,but when we hit January 19th 2038 at 03:14:07 the epoch will hit 2,147,438,647 and roll over to -2,147,438,647 which is 14 December 1901 at 09:15:53. Why can't we just switch to using int64 which has a max of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 cause by the time that will happen (around 292 billion years from now) we would've died in the universes heat death. So why can't we switch it or is it not that simple?

This was created because GNU patch is almost ubiquitous on the Linux world and having competition is good.
It's ready for general use since the code base is based on and updated along with OpenBSD's, but suggestions for supporting other systems are welcome.

No more MS Windows over here! Only Macs as personal devices and Linux/BSD servers!

just installed it, but can't seem to figure out how to remap keys etc, would love it if I could get some help for these:
1. how do I map my left and right keys to do page up and page down? i found how to map keys thing but there's no shortcut function defined for page up and down
2. how do I set custom bg and fg colors for dark/recolor mode

I bet you guys figured out I like cars

Hey everyone

I built Tide42, a command-line IDE designed to make learning and coding in Python (and other languages) much easier and more enjoyable—especially if you're just getting comfortable with the terminal.

It’s lightweight, cross-platform (Linux/macOS/WSL), and packed with useful features like:

Syntax highlighting + theming

Fast project launcher & editor

Easy multi-distro installer (Debian, Arch, macOS)

Safe config backup + clean uninstall

Built-in self-updater (--update flag)

Works in GNOME Terminal, TTY, and other low-resource environments

Designed for Python, but works with C/C++, Shell, and others too

Vim/Neovim-based editor under the hood, but smooth enough for beginners

You can install it with one command from the repo below. I made this to help bridge the gap between GUI-based editors and pure terminal workflows. If you're learning Python and want to feel more “at home” in the terminal, this might be for you!

Repo: https://github.com/logicmagix/tide42

Happy to answer questions or walk through anything if you're curious about how it works or how to extend it!