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I'm not ready to give up on twitter, but enough of the people I care about following here have joined Mastodon to make it interesting to me to do so as well, so I'm now in the fediverse at fosstodon.org/web/@alanc.
Alan Coopersmith @[email protected]
@alanc
Solaris Engineer at Sun^H^H^HOracle (Release management, Security, X11, GNOME); former board member of @XorgFoundation & @OpenSolaris. pronoun.is/he
- Today we've released #OracleSolaris 11.4.72, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is at blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/a… , a summary of new features is at blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/w… , and a mastodon thread with some more details is at fosstodon.org/@alanc/1129955… .
- Today is Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update release day, so for #OracleSolaris we have released updates for 11.4 & patches for 10. For info on 11.4 SRU 71, see blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/a… .
- blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-wind… - David Rosenthal remembers his early work at Sun on NeWS and porting X to Sun workstations, and explains why he thinks X11 won out over NeWS, and why Wayland is now displacing X11.
- In #OracleSolaris, the global /var/adm/spellhist file was removed in Solaris 11.0 & S10U10 - replaced by per-user history in $HOME/.spellhist (unless $H_SPELL is set to save it somewhere else).Learned recently that spell(1) on classic Unix used to maintain a history file of misspelled words, who misspelled them, and when it was run so the admin could add correct-spellings to the system dictionary. It endures (opt-in) in OpenBSD's version. man.openbsd.com/spell.1#h
