FreeBSD 13.0 Full Desktop Experience, FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud, Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace, Inferno is open source as well, NetBSD hits donation milestone, grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD, Random Programming Challenge, OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) and more
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Headlines
FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience (https://www.tubsta.com/2021/03/freebsd-13-0-full-desktop-experience/)
With the release of FreeBSD 13.0 on the horizon, I wanted to see how it shapes up on my Lenovo T450 laptop. Previous major releases on this laptop, using it as a workstation, felt very rough around the edges but with 13, it feels like the developers got it right.
FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-next-level-freebsd-on-arm64-in-the-cloud/)
Until the end of June, Amazon AWS is offering free ARM64 Graviton instances, learn how to try out FreeBSD to ARMv8 in the cloud
Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace! (https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/plan-9-bell-labs-cyberspace/)
The releases below represent the historical releases of Plan 9. (http://p9f.org/dl/index.html) The two versions of 4th Edition represent the initial release and the final version available from Bell Labs as it was updated and patched. All historical releases of Plan 9 have been re-released under the terms of the MIT license.
+ Inferno is open source as well (https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno64-os/src/master/)
News Roundup
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020 (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/hitting_donation_milestone_financial_report)
We nearly hit our 2020 donation milestone set after the release of 9.0 of $50,000.
grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD (https://rubenerd.com/grep-returns-standard-input/)
I was dealing with a bizarre error with grep(1) on FreeBSD, and it soon infected my macOS and NetBSD machines too. It was driving me crazy!
Random Programming Challenge (https://projecteuler.net/problem=84)
This better not be an April Fools Joke… I want to see this actually implemented. I’ll donate $100 to the first BSD that actually implements this for real. Who’s with me?
OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161730046519995)
To make sure that OpenBSD can be used elsewhere than just earth, this diff introduces Coordinated Mars Time (MTC), the Mars equivalent of earth’s Universal Time (UTC).
OpenZFS had a good one too (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/11823)
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