444: Historic Developments

The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501713) Modern inetd in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/modern-inetd-in-freebsd/) News Roundup The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/Argv0IsEasy) Retrocomputing can be more than games (https://rubenerd.com/retrocomputing-is-more-than-games/) You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/09/section_8_unix_user_manual/) Beastie Bits New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220214061716) GhostBSD Online Meetup (http://ghostbsd.org/node/243) HAMBug online meeting, March 8th @ 18:30 ET (http://hambug.ca/) HardenedBSD 12-STABLE support will be dropped in May 2022 (https://twitter.com/HardenedBSD/status/1492249763193970689) Option options for getopt (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/02/16/26684.html) New Tarsnap version is out (https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00046.html) pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-22.01-and-ce-2.6.0-are-now-available) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Karst - replacing disks (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/444/feedback/Karst%20-%20replacing%20disks.md) TheHolm - zfs and booting (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/444/feedback/TheHolm%20-%20zfs%20and%20booting.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])