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Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Useless use of GNU (https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html) Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/meet-the-2021-freebsd-google-summer-of-code-students/) News Roundup Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProgramsVsPortability) References this article: I’m not sure that UNIX won (https://rubenerd.com/im-not-sure-that-unix-won/) *** ### A new path: vm86-based venix emulator (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-new-path-vm86-based-venix-emulator.html) *** ### ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html) *** ### traceroute(8) gets speed boost (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704) *** 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 Al - TransAtlantic Cables (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/421/feedback/Al%20-%20TransAtlantic%20Cables.md) Christopher - NVMe (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/421/feedback/Christopher%20-%20NVMe.md) JohnnyK - Vivaldi (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/421/feedback/JohnnyK%2-%20Vivaldi.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***