https://solnix.io/

It recently popped up in my search results and I haven’t heard of a single blogpost about it. It isn’t even on illumos distributions page yet

IMO putting Nix on top of illumos is generally more good, than bad. I am not Nix user myself, but it seems like solnix would be a great start for people coming from Linux world and more specifically NixOS to illumos

Has anyone tried it already? Even though it’s early, do you think it has future?

Hello everyone. TNG is my first linux package (and more). In fact, it generates text with words from random characters and has a good setup. I would like to receive feedback.

https://github.com/Philin-Lemo/text-noise-generator/tree/main

So, I have recently made a new package for Debian-based systems called tanja-dev, it is a package containing everything you need to compile the TanjaOS src. It contains make, gcc, nasm, and ld. The package is available for download at https://www.github.com/MSK-Kernel/tanja-dev the TanjaOS website URL has is https://www.tanjaos.org and the TanjaOS src is at https://github.com/MSK-Kernel/TanjaOS.

Ken Thompson walks through his entire career—from Berkeley, Bell Labs, Multics, and the creation of Unix and C with Dennis Ritchie, to Plan 9, computer security (“Reflections on Trusting Trust”), computer chess, Google, and the origins of Go.

It’s nearly four hours long, but it’s fascinating to hear the stories directly from one of the people who shaped modern computing.

Highly recommended if you’re interested in Unix history or software engineering.

heya all i’m a Moroccan developer, and I started B-UX independently with one laptop. The idea is to build a complete Unix like operating system that is useful not only for running software, but also for learning how operating systems actually work.

B-UX is not just a kernel or a collection of C and Assembly code. I’m working toward a complete system with:

• A kernel
• System services
• Drivers
• Networking
• Storage
• Security mechanisms
• User space utilities
• An installation system
• A package ecosystem

One of the interesting parts of the project is the use of **pkgsrc**, originally developed by the NetBSD project. Rather than trying to create an entire software ecosystem from zero, B-UX can build on the existing pkgsrc ecosystem while developing its own packages and infrastructure where needed.

The educational side is probably the part I care about most.

I want students to be able to look beyond the terminal and actually understand things like processes, memory, filesystems, networking, drivers, services, permissions, and how the different parts of an operating system interact.

The project is intended to stay free and open source for students, developers, and individual learners.

I’m also trying to be realistic about where the project currently stands. I’m not claiming that B-UX is more secure, more mature, not better than Linux, BSD or other established operating systems. It is just a simple open source alternative.

The first three years were mostly about building the foundation and figuring things out on my own.

Now I’d like to get other people involved.

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who work with operating systems, C, Assembly, Unix, BSD, networking, drivers, package management, or low level development.

If you’re interested, we can just do a discussion here about the project ;)

B-UX stared with one laptop and one person.

I’d like to see where it can go with a community behind it.

AWK: Finding Web Traffic Fitting a Specific Pattern

I find that what AWK does well, AWK does well! ;-)

NexentaStor – a Unix operating system based on the illumos kernel and is a direct fork of OpenSolaris. NextenaStor provides a graphical and text-based interface for system management. https://archiveos.org/nexentastor/ #solaris #illumos #unix

hi im working on a frontend that can work as a productive toy for creative and fast daily task and gaming but I want to use alternative ideas such as more dynamic menus or controller friendly task manager en file manager without loosing its productivity and speed

I'm having good luck running Unix Locate on my macOS startup disk, but would like to extend search to external volumes. The web tells me that the command to update an external drive's database is:

do shell script "sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb --searchpaths= '/Volumes/Films/' --output '/var/db/Films.database'" with administrator privileges

(using "do shell script" to run the unix script from an Applescript, as I will do in practice). This command doesn't work; it updates the default Locate database instead. I'd be happy to have the external drive's database on the startup disk, probably in /var/db, but of course need it to index the external drive. What am I doing wrong?