Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more
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Headlines
Useless use of GNU (https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html)
Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/meet-the-2021-freebsd-google-summer-of-code-students/)
News Roundup
Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProgramsVsPortability)
References this article: I’m not sure that UNIX won (https://rubenerd.com/im-not-sure-that-unix-won/)
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### A new path: vm86-based venix emulator (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-new-path-vm86-based-venix-emulator.html)
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### ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html)
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### traceroute(8) gets speed boost (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704)
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