Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 21, 2022

• EmuTOS and its relatives: a free ST-compatible OS based on DR's GPL code

  I have an ST, and an Amiga, but I didn't use either back in the day. But I think this is amazing work and really impressive.

  So I stuck in on HN and some pillock went "yah boo TOS sucks Amiga is better" like it was 1986. I paraphrase. I am unimpressed.

  In fact, while I don't want to be mean, you're missing two or possibly three different points... among which are the reasons I posted this link.

• FOSDEM 2023 dates: 4 & 5 February 2023

  FOSDEM 2023 will take place on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of February 2023. We are aiming for a physical conference.

• EuroBSDCon 2022

  No videos are available yet to provide much-needed context to presentations, but we'll keep you posted.

• A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

  So I built my own single-file example. It's not perfect but it helped me get started and may help you too. We'll walk through that code, ~260 lines of Go, in this post.

  The key-value database will only be able to set keys, not delete them. But it will be able to overwrite existing entries. And it will expose this distributed key-value database over an HTTP API.

• 20 mysqladmin Commands for MYSQL/MariaDB Database Administration

  mysqladmin is a command-line database administration utility that comes with MySQL/MariaDB server, which is used by Database Administrators to perform some basic MySQL tasks such as setting the root password, changing the root password, monitoring mysql processes, reloading privileges, creating/dropping databases, checking server status, show usage statistic, kill running queries, etc.

  The command to use mysqladmin and the general syntax is...