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This week on the show, we’ve got some great stories to bring you, a look at the odder side of UNIX history

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syspatch in testing state

• Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot@ openbsd has posted a call for testing for OpenBSD’s new syspatch tool
• “syspatch(8), a "binary" patch system for -release is now ready for early testing. This does not use binary diffing to update the system, but regular signed tarballs containing the updated files (ala installer).”
• “I would appreciate feedback on the tool. But please send it directly to me, there's no need to pollute the list. This is obviously WIP and the tool may or may not change in drastic ways.”
• “These test binary patches are not endorsed by the OpenBSD project and should not be trusted, I am only providing them to get early feedback on the tool. If all goes as planned, I am hoping that syspatch will make it into the 6.1 release; but for it to happen, I need to know how it breaks your systems :-)”
• Instructions
• If you test it, report back and let us know how it went ***

Weston working

• Over the past few years we’ve had some user-interest in the state of Wayland / Weston on FreeBSD. In the past day or so, Johannes Lundberg has sent in a progress report to the FreeBSD mailing lists.
• Without further ADO:

We had some progress with Wayland that we'd like to share.

Wayland (v1.12.0)
Working

Weston (v1.12.0)
Working (Porting WIP)

Weston-clients (installed with wayland/weston port)
Working

XWayland (run X11 apps in Wayland compositor)
Works (maximized window only) if started manually but not when
launching X11 app from Weston. Most likely problem with Weston IPC.

Sway (i3-compatible Wayland compositor)
Working

SDL20 (Wayland backend)
games/stonesoup-sdl briefly tested.
https://twitter.com/johalun/status/811334203358867456

GDM (with Wayland)
Halted - depends on logind.

GTK3
gtk3-demo runs fine on Weston (might have to set GDK_BACKEND=wayland
first.
GTK3 apps working (gedit, gnumeric, xfce4-terminal tested, xfce desktop
(4.12) does not yet support GTK3)“

• Johannes goes on to give instructions on how / where you can fetch their WiP and do your own testing. At the moment you’ll need Matt Macy’s newer Intel video work, as well as their ports tree which includes all the necessary software bits.
• Before anybody asks, yes we are watching this for TrueOS! ***

Where the rubber meets the road (part two)

• Continuing with our story from Brian Everly from a week ago, we have an update today on the process to dual-boot OpenBSD with Arch Linux.
• As we last left off, Arch was up and running on the laptop, but some quirks in the hardware meant OpenBSD would take a bi