661: Break up Big Tech

About this episode

This episode discusses breaking up Big Tech and various BSD-related topics including porting MacOS and using OpenBSD.

Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Breaking up with Big Tech Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii News Roundup Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not Java Sun SPOTs I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point Beastie Bits OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary A quick and easy Guide to Tmux 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 Producer Note, If you have emailed in and you havent heard back and we havent covered your message, email again. Our email is flooded with spam and I might have missed your message. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

People in this episode

Host: JT Pennington

Topics covered

• Big Tech
• Porting MacOS
• OpenBSD
• Postgres
• BSD News
• Tech Education

Keywords

• Big Tech
• MacOS
• OpenBSD
• Postgres
• Tmux
• Nintendo Wii
• Pomera DM250

Sponsors

Tarsnap

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenBSD, Postgres

Products: MacOS

Books & works: 2.11BSD, Tmux

Places: Nintendo Wii, Pomera DM250

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