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r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe
Slackware Core Team member.
Long-time Slackware user.
Interested in classic Unix tools, editors, and X11 WMs.
Slackware: http://www.slackware.com/~r1w1s1
NVI Quick Reference: http://www.slackware.com/~r1w1s1/nvi.html
Git: https://sr.ht/~r1w1s1/
Blog: https://r1w1s1.srht.site/
Joined: 2026-09-14 10:20:16
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r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-18 10:09:26)
Repology is currently unavailable due to a domain/registrar issue, but the service itself is still running.
As the maintainer of 100+ SlackBuilds, I use Repology all the time to track upstream releases.
Temporary /etc/hosts workaround:
92.63.176.157 repology.org
2a03:6f01:1:2::f159 repology.org
Add both IPv4 and IPv6.
Details: https://github.com/repology/repology-rs/issues/560
#repology #slackware
Reply to @cks@mastodon.social
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 07:42:09)
I think my workflow is just a little different. I stopped using an external monitor years ago by choice, and I tend to focus on one thing at a time. If I need another file, I often just use another tmux window. I guess tmux is my buffer manager. :) That probably explains why I don't miss multi-buffer support much.
Reply to @cks@mastodon.social
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 06:30:59)
This really resonates with me. My editor journey has actually gone in the opposite direction:
vim → nvi → and now increasingly eh(https://codeberg.org/SirWumpus/eh/)
I’ve even tried forcing myself to use ed for a while. I can appreciate it, but as a daily editor today, that’s a difficult commitment. :)
nvi and eh have made me realize how little I actually need from an editor.
Funny how hardware stopped forcing us to use small tools, yet some of us are finding our way back to them by choice.
Reply to @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 04:48:15)
True! But I found the Eee PC community on Reddit and somehow fell in love with these little machines. :)
Reply to @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 04:42:59)
This is so cool! Now I really want to find an Eee PC and put Slackware or NetBSD on it. :)
Reply to @thomasadam@bsd.network
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-16 23:28:33)
I had a look at the X11CP repository and it’s really impressive. It’s a great way to preserve and rediscover all these classic X11 and Motif applications.
Reply to @thomasadam@bsd.network
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-16 11:03:01)
Nice work, and great to see moxfm alive again. I built the current master on Slackware 15.0+ with Motif 2.5.2 and found a reproducible crash during first startup while displaying the installation dialog.
I’ve opened issue #2 (https://github.com/ThomasAdam/moxfm/issues/2) with the complete GDB backtrace.
Reply to @washbear@mastodon.sdf.org
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-16 11:01:55)
Nice work, and great to see moxfm alive again. I built the current master on Slackware 15.0+ with Motif 2.5.2 and found a reproducible crash during first startup while displaying the installation dialog.
I’ve opened issue #2 (https://github.com/ThomasAdam/moxfm/issues/2) with the complete GDB backtrace.
CC: @thomasadam@bsd.network
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-16 10:39:38)
GEFS on OpenBSD, a very early preview.
Ori Bernstein is porting GEFS, the crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front, to OpenBSD.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2
#openbsd #bsd
r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-14 10:19:04)
Ref: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@lex0de/117260305094274544
This is exactly the kind of project I like to see: small, focused, terminal-first, and portable across Unix-like systems. Nice work!
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