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POSIX 2024 Changes

POSIX.1-2024 has just been released with a lot of exciting and interesting improvements and removals compared to POSIX-1.2008. The html version of the standard has not been uploaded yet as of this writing. The official list of new functions in the standard itself is very incomplete, so I combed through the CHANGE HISTORY sections in the official pdf, and I present you with the most accurate list of the changes so far.

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Sortix 1.0 Feedback

I had a lovely glass of port wine with my close family as the scp(1) program uploaded everything to sortix.org. I hoped I hadn't screwed up the release process somehow and uploaded defective cdrom images. Everything seemed to work. It was time to let everyone know about the release.

Sortix 1.0 was released a bit over two weeks ago and it was well received. It had a bit of news coverage and a surprising amount of coverage from non-English communities. The biggest lesson was that Twitter is a surprisingly good platform to promote Sortix on. I think there's a good deal of people that could be interested in projects like Sortix, but the question is how to reach this audience. How was it received?

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