today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2025

• HaikuOS ☛ Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2025

  This report covers hrev58946 through hrev58986.

  waddlesplash reworked Terminal to not change its current directory when spawning new Terminals, which was inadvertently causing filesystems to not be able to be unmounted if a Terminal was spawned inside them.

  abbategabriel changed the name of “Status bar” in Appearance preferences to “Progress bar”. The class on Haiku is called BStatusBar, but on other OSes the common terminology is “Progress bar”, so this is less confusing.

  nipos made the scrollbars in SerialConnect adjust with the font size.

• New Releases

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Easy Excalibur version 6.124 7.0-RC2

    Yes, another release candidate! Download:

    https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2025/6.124/

    This is almost 7.0-final, except that I'm still having problems with hanging on my Asus Zenbook. Which is so frustrating, as Easy Scarthgap boots on it every time.

• BSD

  • Subnetspider ☛ Trying out Netgraph VNET Jails with ngbuddy

    After reading the latest FreeBSD Journal “Netgraph for the Rest of Us” by Daniel J. Bell, I discovering the tool ngbuddy(8), and immediately wanted to try it out myself. I actually wanted to experiment with Netgraph for a while now, but I could never figure out how to configure it manually, as it is rather complicated. However, this seemed like the perfect opportunity, so I installed FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE in a fresh VM on my second Proxmox VE and created a couple of Bastille VNET jails, which I modified to use Netgraph.

• Slackware Family

  • Eric Hameleers ☛ Heads-up: I am migrating slackware.nl to a different host on 14-aug

    Before the summer holiday ends and people start hammering my download servers again, I am going to that which I announced a while ago. In order to deal with increasing load on my main server I have been planning a re-distribution of its services to multiple new hosts.

• Arch Family

  • LWN ☛ Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

    The final guideline is that everything is Arch-centric. Content on the site may be useful for users running different Linux distributions, and contributions are welcome that may apply to other distributions, but ""something that will not work on Arch as-is is not something we will be hosting on our site"". That, he said, allowed the maintenance team to be focused on the content Arch provides and helps to keep maintenance more manageable.