If you look around you should still be able to find Luke Mewburn's paper on #MewburnRC .

Similarly, what Linux people erroneously call "sysvinit" is actually van Smoorenburg init+rc created (by Miquel van Smoorenburg) for Minix in 1992.

It's not from #Unix System 5 at all, as that had obsoleted R3's init+rc system years before 1992 and gone on to the AIX SRC, and the SAF, SAC, ttymon, SMF, and stuff still in #Illumos today.

jdebp.info/FGA/unix-service-ac…

@amin @fbievan @rl_dane

#rc #init

The CfP for the BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is now available, you can start submitting your talk 🤩

people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fo…

#Fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Illumos #ZFS #bhyve

boosts appreciated

The September 9th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

youtu.be/Td4b4tnFB8k

We discussed Eurobhyvecon, Jail Descriptors, Capsicum vs. Pledge, the WITHOUT_JAIL build option, the Yggdrasil overlay network IPv6 routing scheme, podman, PkgBase, Netgraph vs. bridge vs. aliased networking performance, rctl and cpu set, the Nitro init system and process supervisor, and much more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

#FreeBSD #illumos

2025-09-09 Jail/Zones Production User Call

The September 9th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User CallWe discussed Eurobhyvecon, Jail Descriptors, Capsicum vs. Pledge, the WITHOUT_JAIL build option, the Y...

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One of the ways I disagree with many of my esteemed fellow Rust people is that I think #async #RustLang is great. Switching #nextest over to #asynchronous Rust has yielded incredible dividends, including but not limited to what I described in sunshowers.io/posts/nextest-an….

The ability to write cross-platform heterogenous selects provides an extraordinary amount of power.

BTW, now that I'm at @oxidecomputer, I've been trying out nextest on #illumos and it works with zero (0) code changes!

How (and why) nextest uses tokio :: sunshowers

How my open source test runner uses async Rust.

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