Episode Details

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

NOTES
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Headlines

Useless use of GNU

Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students

News Roundup

Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes

• References this article: I’m not sure that UNIX won *** ### A new path: vm86-based venix emulator *** ### ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU *** ### traceroute(8) gets speed boost ***

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