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Submission + - OpenBSD 7.5 Released

Submitted by Mononymous on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:02PM

Mononymous writes: The latest release of OpenBSD, the FOSS Unix-like operating system focused on correctness and security over features and performance, is out today. This version includes newer driver support, performance improvements, stability fixes, and lots of package updates. One highlight is a complete port of KDE Plasma 5.
You can view the announcement and get the bits at OpenBSD.org.

Submission + - FreeBSD 14 Released

Submitted by Mononymous on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:29AM

Mononymous writes: FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE has been officially released. You can get it from the website, or via freebsd-update and source update methods for existing systems. Some highlights:

OpenSSH version 9.5p1
OpenSSL version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1t in FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE
OpenZFS release 2.2
The bhyve hypervisor now supports TPM and GPU passthrough.

This version will now create user home directories in /home by default, instead of the traditional /usr/home.

More information on the release and changes can be found via the release announcement page.

Submission + - Source Code to Infocom's Text Adventure Interpreters Now Available

Submitted by Mononymous on Saturday November 18, 2023 @01:21PM

Mononymous writes: Back in 2019, digital archivist Jason Scott released the source code to Infocom's classic text adventures. Now the other piece of the puzzle is available: the source code (mostly in assembly, with some C and Pascal) to their microcomputer interpreters.

Infocom, publisher of the best-selling Zork series, ported their text adventures to most of the diverse microcomputer platforms of the 1980s by using an early virtual machine, known as the Z-machine or ZIP. This enabled them to sell games simultaneously for everything from the TI-99/4A to the Commodore 128. Hobbyists reverse-engineered the technology in the 1990s to create modern implementations, but now the original source code can be studied directly.

Submission + - Interactive Fiction Compiler Inform 7 is Now Open Source

Submitted by Mononymous on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:09AM

Mononymous writes: Created by Graham Nelson, Inform 7 compiles a powerful object oriented language resembling English into a working text adventure. Friendly GUIs for various platforms have been open source for many years, but the core compiler remained proprietary. Now, 16 years after its initial freeware release, Nelson has released the source code under the Artistic License 2.0 in a public GitHub repo. Inform 7 is one of the largest literate programs ever released.

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